Daniel Tammet Quotes

By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

I just am not good at math.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

An ounce of algebra is worth of a ton of verbal argument.

I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

I was never good at math.

I absolutely hate math!

Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind.

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

Algebra applies to the clouds.

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.