Charles Barber > Quotes

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer”
― Charles Barber, In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

“Neurodiversity? Indeed. According to The New York Times: “As psychiatrists and neurologists uncover an ever-wider variety of brain wiring,” a new kind of disability movement, calling for an acceptance of neurodiversity, has been born. Proponents of neurodiversity argue that “brain differences, like body differences, should be embraced,” and appeal for a neurologically tolerant society.76”
― Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Medicated a Nation

“A heaping tablespoon of ground-up zeolite had the surface area of a football field.”
― Charles Barber, In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army