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 NASHThere are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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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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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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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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People 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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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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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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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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