"I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.“

-Temple Grandin

posted in science

Temple Grandin quote about science: "I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-..."

Other Quotes

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis."

-Temple Grandin

"If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple."

-Temple Grandin

"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."

-Temple Grandin

teacherView Quote

"I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me."

-Temple Grandin

teacherView Quote

"I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher."

-Temple Grandin

teacherView Quote

"I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics."

-Temple Grandin

sportsView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff."

-Joel Edgerton

scienceView Quote

"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."

-Diane Cilento

scienceView Quote

"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."

-Brian Aldiss

scienceView Quote

"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space."

-Nick Lampson

scienceView Quote

"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."

-John Desmond Bernal

scienceView Quote

"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."

-John Desmond Bernal

scienceView Quote