"If when we are taught English we are……" — Daniel Tammet
"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 us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive."
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Daniel Tammet
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56 Quotes by Daniel Tammet
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Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands 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…
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We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name…
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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…
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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…
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I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control…
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Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single,…
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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…
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Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we…
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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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