Nature reports that scientist, like criminals, do their best work when they are young and single. Psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science found that 65% of eminent scientists published their most significant work before they were 35. Similarly, criminals, do their most audacious crimes when they are younger than 30.
It seems that once you get a wife and settle down that old fire in the belly tends to reduce to a bit of a smoulder.
Of course this research has limited credibility as Satoshi Kanazawa was 40 at the time it was published.
(Source, the green man)
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