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.
JOHN FORBES NASHBut 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHRationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
JOHN FORBES NASHThis began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
JOHN FORBES NASHThere are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
JOHN FORBES NASHPeople are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
JOHN FORBES NASHI 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 NASHI would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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.
JOHN FORBES NASHHowever 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHI had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
JOHN FORBES NASHI have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
JOHN FORBES NASHThus 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 NASHAs you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
JOHN FORBES NASHI 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 NASHI 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 NASHThough 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.
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