John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.”

“I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.”

“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.”

“As a graduate student I studied mathematics fairly broadly, and I was fortunate enough, besides developing the idea which led to 'Non-Cooperative Games,' also to make a nice discovery relating to manifolds and real algebraic varieties.”

“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.”

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

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