“several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15” — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or who lacked… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about whether Nash… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.” — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!” — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15” — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
