“At the present time I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists.”

—  John Nash

Autobiographical essay (1994)
Context: At the present time 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. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

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American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate 1928–2015

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