John Forbes Nash Quotes

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.

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.

The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.

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.

I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.

This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.