Shakuntala Devi Quotes

Shakuntala Devi was an Indian writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the "human computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.

Birth: November 04, 1929 - Death: April 21, 2013

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

Topic(s): Science , Can Do , Numbers

I relax completely when I’m at rest. I don’t think of numbers; I don’t think of work.

Topic(s): Thinking , Numbers , Relax

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.

Topic(s): Ifs , Body , Use

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

Topic(s): Life , Numbers , Paper

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

Topic(s): School , Degrees , Absorbing

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

Topic(s): Children , Subjects , Approach

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

Topic(s): Different , Doe , Allowing

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.

Topic(s): Book , Girl , Poor

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

Topic(s): Humans , Human Beings

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Shakuntala Devi Quotes