Top 16 Quotes by Shakuntala Devi

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

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

Nobody challenges me. I challenge myself.

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

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

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!

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.

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.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.