People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
JOHN FORBES NASHPeople are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
JOHN FORBES NASHAs you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
JOHN FORBES NASHThere are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
JOHN FORBES NASHHowever 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHI think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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.
JOHN FORBES NASHNowadays 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHStatistically, 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 NASHTo 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 NASHThus 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.
JOHN FORBES NASHGradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
JOHN FORBES NASHI would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
JOHN FORBES NASHBut 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 NASHThis began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
JOHN FORBES NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
JOHN FORBES NASH