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 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 NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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 madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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 NASHI think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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 NASHIt is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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 NASHStatistically, 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHThere are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
JOHN FORBES NASHTo some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
JOHN FORBES NASHRationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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 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.
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