There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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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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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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 think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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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 would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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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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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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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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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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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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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