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 NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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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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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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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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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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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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 have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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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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