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 NASHI think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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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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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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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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’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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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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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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