"I would not dare to say that there……" — John Forbes Nash
"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 from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia."
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John Forbes Nash
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16 Quotes by John Forbes Nash
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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 know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career…
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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…
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape.…
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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…
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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my…
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I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting…
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely…
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt…
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship…
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
— Gaston Bachelard
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and…
— Walter Bagehot
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The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is…
— Edward de Bono
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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before,…
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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