Top 9 Quotes by Shakuntala Devi

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

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

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

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

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

Shakuntala Devi

Children, Mathematics, Dread

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

Shakuntala Devi

Humans, Human Beings

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