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 NASH
It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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.
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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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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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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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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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