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.
Daniel TammetWhy learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.
Daniel TammetFrom '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 TammetI 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 TammetOften autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being able to have any kind of normal, happy life.
Daniel TammetWe know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant โHe who spoke truth like an oracleโ. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The worldโs most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.
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