John Forbes Nash, Jr

I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

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

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

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…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history,…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

You could see how money is different all of a sudden in Italy when they had the lire and now they have…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr