Sylvia Nasar

“I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons…

— Sylvia Nasar

“People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“You are all my reasons.”

— Sylvia Nasar

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

— Sylvia Nasar

“Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or…

— Sylvia Nasar

“42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about…

— Sylvia Nasar

A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

— Sylvia Nasar

“It was the great Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann who first recognized that social behavior could be analyzed as games.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“I thought I could save a very worthwhile person.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!”

— Sylvia Nasar

“several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to…

— Sylvia Nasar

“...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of…

— Sylvia Nasar

“James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, “Delusion provides a certain,…

— Sylvia Nasar

“RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an…

— Sylvia Nasar

“Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go.”

— Sylvia Nasar

“Nash’s lifelong quest for meaning, control, and recognition in the context of a continuing struggle, not just in society, but in the…

— Sylvia Nasar