Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It’s a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
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. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
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 very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
Of course creativity is a mystery. We don’t know what drives it or what constitutes it. It’s one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it’s impossible to define. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
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 very important because it references things that logic alone cannot. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
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 of talent and achievement and so on. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
From ‘Embracing the Wide Sky’, I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
Life is going to be complex, and the only way we’re able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
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 just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests. Daniel Tammet Read Quote
