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.
JOHN FORBES NASHPeople are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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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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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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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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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.
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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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