John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous John Forbes Nash, Jr. quotes and sayings (mathematician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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 maybe want to imagine something better.”
“You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.”
“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.”
“In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.”
“I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.”
“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.”
“There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.”
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