All Daniel Tammet Quotes
- When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's… Answer
- No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the persons involved has an autistic spectrum disorder. Even… Any
- You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different. Disabled
- Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for… Answer
- Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with. All
- There are always things I find difficult - being in crowds, remembering faces. I do like routines. I always travel with someone. My life in… Always Things
- What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where… Experience
- I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult… Adult
- The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures of languages, the… Acquiring
- Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something… Abstract
- 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… Deal
- Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I… Coalesce
- I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers… Bed
- One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point… Books
- My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I… Autism
- If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from… Alive