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Daniel Tammet has 56 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on…
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We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which…
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One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years…
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I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed…
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I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really…
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Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point…
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I'm inconsistent because I'm human.
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I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after…
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Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.
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I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.
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I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.
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