John Forbes Nash Quotes
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer…
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a…
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so…
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It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a…
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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she…
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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.
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as…
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be…
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since…
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In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.
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