I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic.… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share
