“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.”

—  John Nash

Autobiographical essay (1994)
Context: 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. 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. 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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American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate 1928–2015

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