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 NASHI 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.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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.
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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.
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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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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.
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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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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.
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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.
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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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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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