“...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness and not of the early attempts to treat it. The popular view that anti-psychotics were chemical… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“Nash’s lifelong quest for meaning, control, and recognition in the context of a continuing struggle, not just in society, but in the warring impulses of his paradoxical self, was now reduced to a caricature. Just as the overconcreteness of a… — 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
