List of John Forbes Nash Quotes

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John Forbes Nash
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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 could play the piano at the old house.
Memories Grandmother Play
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.
Eight Months Jersey
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 i had not actually won the putnam competition... thus princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
Choices Competition Fellowship
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 if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
Thinking Joy Style
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 beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
Lonely Men Years
Nowadays we can do computer experiments using mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. this offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
Science Ideas Computer
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 therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. but i'm not in the position.
Careers Leader Would Be
There are things that tend to moderate with age. schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
Age Schizophrenia Moderates
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
People Wish Insane
Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements. however i am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical. thus i have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
Thinking Vacation Years
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.
Mad Would Be Research
In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
Dream Typical Rational
  • Born: June 13, 1928
  • Died: May 23, 2015
  • Occupation: Mathematician
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