To 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 NASHI have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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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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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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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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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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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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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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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