If You Think You're a Genius, You're Crazy
Dean Keith Simonton, Nautilus
When John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, schizophrenic, and paranoid delusional, was asked how he could believe that space aliens had recruited him to save the world, he gave a simple response. Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.
When John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, schizophrenic, and paranoid delusional, was asked how he could believe that space aliens had recruited him to save the world, he gave a simple response. Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.