I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
JOHN FORBES NASHI know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
JOHN FORBES NASHRationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
JOHN FORBES NASHGradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
JOHN FORBES NASHAs you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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 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 NASHNowadays 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 NASHIn a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
JOHN FORBES NASHI have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
JOHN FORBES NASHThis began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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 NASHThere are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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 NASHI had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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