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

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

- 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

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

- 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 …

- 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. …

- 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…

- 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…

- Daniel Tammet

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

- Daniel Tammet