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.
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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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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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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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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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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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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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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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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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