Shakuntala Devi Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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