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 NASHClasses will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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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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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.
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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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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.
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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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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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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