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.
JOHN FORBES NASHI think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
More John Forbes Nash Quotes
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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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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 know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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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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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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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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I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
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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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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 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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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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