His genius refused to obey the demands of others
With a view of the world allowing hope and love
An intellect famed, his genius will be remembered
But the end came with a madness that smothered
“Our total reality and total existence are beautiful and meaningful . . . . We should judge reality by the little which we truly know of it. Since that part which conceptually we know fully turns out to be so beautiful, the real world of which we know so little should also be beautiful. Life may be miserable for seventy years and happy for a million years: the short period of misery may even be necessary for the whole.”
Kurt Gödel
April 28 1906 --- January 14 1978