I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
JOHN FORBES NASHIn madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements.
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
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However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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