The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
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.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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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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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.
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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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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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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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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