Quotes from Daniel Tammet

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.

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.

My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.