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58 quotes by Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet FRSA (born 31 January 1979) is an English writer, essayist, translator, and autistic savant. His 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association. Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best selling books of 2009. Thinking in Numbers, Tammet's third book, was published by...
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We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

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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... →

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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... →

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I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual... →

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I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the... →

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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 in my life, that would be... →

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How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to figure out for themselves. I'm wary of the... →

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I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference... →

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I'm very comfortable with the idea of there being late bloomers, and for me, of course, there's no difficulty at all in the way that I think... →

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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... →

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It was a gradual process, realising I was different. I remember at primary school getting a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they... →

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My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the... →

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My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three... →

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