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18 quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the factors that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. His theories are used in market economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory. Serving as a Senior Research...
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

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In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

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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.

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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

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I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

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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... →

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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more... →

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

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