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1 " Doctors tell me that nothing in my brain was newly created or added when I was injured. Rather, innate but dormant skills were released. "
― , Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
2 " I walk around in a near-constant state of inspiration with a great hunger of knowledge, and I read everything I can about math and physics, often developing my own theories along the way. "
3 " When I met with Dr. Treffet in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, he told me that these innate skills are, in his words, "factory-installed software", or "genetic" memory.......Why the brain suppresses these remarkable abilities is still a mystery, but sometimes, when the brain is diseased or damaged, it relents and unleashes the inner genius. "