Daniel Tammet Quotes

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

All creation requires a scientific brain.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version.

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I am never satisfied until I can make a mathematical model of what I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand. If I cannot, I do not understand.

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.