Shakuntala Devi famous quotes

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Numbers #Paper #Symbols

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Numbers #Mathematics

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Humans

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Children #Mathematics #Dread

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Thinking #Numbers #Relax

I have written a book called 'In the Wonderland of Numbers.' It's about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Girl #Book #Numbers

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#School #Degrees #Truth About Life

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Being Different #Doe #Different

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Brain #Use #Body

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Math #Science #Numbers

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.
-- Shakuntala Devi

#Life #Numbers #Paper