To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
JOHN FORBES NASHAs you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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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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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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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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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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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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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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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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