Daniel Tammet Quotes

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• Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all…
• The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.
• We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known…
• One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge…
• I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to…
• I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like…
• Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers,…
• I'm inconsistent because I'm human.
• I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in…
• Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.
• I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.
• I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.
• When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed…
• Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is…
• Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
• 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…
• I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very…
• I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on…
• There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise…
• When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I…

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