re: Couple of reasons.
>First, she wanted more to do with people
yeah that's the problem with solitary occupations .. whether physics or writing or composing - they pull you out of society for long periods
>He said he could do the math, but was a plodder and followed easily tracked lines of thought. On the other hand, he said Kaczinski could do math intuitively, and how he got to where he was going wasn't usually obvious until he explained it. Didn't think he was good enough to do anything in the field.
and that's AFTER he got his Maths Phd? .. that's rather discouraging - I don't have anything like that mathematical ability. Maybe I would better be suited to Russian brain surgery - or even worse .. applied physics ..