"Though I had success in my research both……" — John Forbes Nash
"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 better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person."
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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 would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no…
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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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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship…
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I acted in millions of TV shows.
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I've acted professionally since I was 16.
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