I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
JOHN FORBES NASHI later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
JOHN FORBES NASHI had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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 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.
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 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 NASHIt’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
JOHN FORBES NASHThough 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.
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 NASHIn a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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 NASHI know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
JOHN FORBES NASHThis began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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 have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
JOHN FORBES NASH