Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information into all manner of thoughts, feelings, memories, and ideas.
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. - Daniel Tammet
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
- Daniel Tammet
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent. - Daniel Tammet
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.
You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different. - Daniel Tammet
You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I woul… - Daniel Tammet
37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I woul…
My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, sp… - Daniel Tammet
My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, sp…
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. … - Daniel Tammet
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. …
I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged … - Daniel Tammet
I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged …
I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends. - Daniel Tammet
I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.
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 … - Daniel Tammet
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 …
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