Quotes by Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet

37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

Dark

Numbers

Sadness

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

Inspiration

Motivation

Shapes

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

Ends

Legs

Order

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It’s a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

Culture

Math

Numbers

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, ‘Chess is life.’ I would say, ‘Pi is life.’

Champion

Chess

Great American

From ‘Embracing the Wide Sky’, I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

Different

Europe

Sky

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we’d consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

May

Memories

Skills

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

Feelings

Giving

Wind

I changed my name because it didn’t fit with the way I saw myself.

Names

Saws

Way

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I’ve been practising it for so long over so many years I’ve almost lost my accent.

Long

Skills

Years

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Action

Air

Art

Autism

Average

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Borders

Brain

Butterfly

Champion

Chess

Children

Circles

Contentment

Culture

Dark

Different

Disabled

Emotional

Ends

Essentials

Europe

Expectations

Eye

Feelings

Giving

Great American

Happy Life

Heart

Humans

I Love Music

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Inconsistent

Inspiration

Intelligent

Intuition

Kids

Kind

Knows

Legs

Life Is

Literature

Long

Math

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Quotes by Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet

37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It’s a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, ‘Chess is life.’ I would say, ‘Pi is life.’

From ‘Embracing the Wide Sky’, I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we’d consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

I changed my name because it didn’t fit with the way I saw myself.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I’ve been practising it for so long over so many years I’ve almost lost my accent.

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