Quotes by John Forbes Nash - Page 1

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
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Typical
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Important
Madness
World
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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Class
Creativity
Mind
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Age
Moderates
Schizophrenia
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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Cosmos
Limits
Relation
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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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Numbers
Problem
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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Insane
People
Wish
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I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Eight
Jersey
Months
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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Grandmother
Memories
Play
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Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Science
Computer
Ideas
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Mad
Research
Would Be
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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Love
Life
Discovery
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Ideas
People
Thinking
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It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
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Men
Lonely
Years
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Joy
Style
Thinking
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
Careers
Leader
Would Be
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
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Math
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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Choices
Competition
Fellowship
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Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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Effort
Rejection
Thinking
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Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
John Forbes Nash / Mathematician
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Ideas
Thinking
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