Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr. - Page 1

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
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Dream
Rational
Typical
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I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
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Periods
Strange
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You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
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Mathematician
Numbers
Feel
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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Important Person
Madness
The Most Important
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It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.
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Demon
Host
Might
Almost
Passed
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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Schizophrenia
Somewhat
Moderate
Tend
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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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Faculty
Resigned
Spring
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The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.
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Ideas
Mathematical
Beings
Came
Seriously
Supernatural
Took
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The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.
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Currency
Gold
Gold Standard
Dollar
Last Century
Standard
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I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.
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Economic
Somewhat
Exactly
Outsider
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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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Insane
Appear
Useful
Extent
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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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Legal
Attempting
Eight
Hospitals
Involuntary
Jersey
Months
New Jersey
Release
Basis
Later
Spent
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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.
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Born
Died
Grandfather
House
Memories
Piano
Had
Before
He
Could
Old
Saw
Old House
She
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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.
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Circumstances
Conventional
Delusional
Mathematical
Renounce
Research
Return
Finally
Hypotheses
Revert
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I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.
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Following
Connection
Normally
Scientific
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If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.
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Greater
Imagine
Importance
Good Myself Me
Greater Importance
Ordinarily
Role
Seem
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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 acted like a 'normal' person.
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Felt
Mad
Normal
Research
Acted
Success Work Better
Eventually
Normal Person
Respected
Though
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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 maybe want to imagine something better.
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Illness
Imagine
Madness
Mental Illness
Selling
Suffering
Good Better Always
Escape
Maybe
Mental
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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.
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Disability
Joy
Physical Health
Characteristic
Entirely
However
Rationally
Returned
Scientists
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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 leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.
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Appropriate
If I Could
Leader
Mental Illness
Position
Career
Mental
Terms
Shift
Therapist
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Characteristics
Dare
Delirium
Direct
Doubt
Madness
No Doubt
Relation
Schizophrenia
Symptoms
Between
Say
Would
Maniacal
Mathematicians
Suffer
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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.
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Developing
Discovery
Fortunate
Games
Fairly
Besides
Student
Graduate
Graduate Student
Led
Relating
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You could see how money is different all of a sudden in Italy when they had the lire and now they have the euro. So they, in a revolutionary way, have gone from bad money to good money comparatively. But what about the rest of the world?
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Euro
Revolutionary
Good Money World
Comparatively
Italy
Sudden
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I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.
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Illness
Important Person
Mental Illness
Pope
Selling
Suffering
Always World Me
Enemies
Mental
The Most Important
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I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics as much as seems reasonable because the economists who use more mathematics are somehow more respected than those who use less. That's the trend.
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Wise
Economics
Mathematics
Reasonable
Seems
Theory
Use
Because
More
Very
Much
Get
Applied
Who
Game
Less
Those
Economists
Generally
Would
Observe
Respected
Somehow
Trend
Than
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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 generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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Competition
Fellowship
Generous
Harvard
Location
Princeton
Became
Choice
Somewhat
Student
Won
Enter
Graduate
Graduate Student
Offered
Thus
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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.
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Academic
Desirable
Obtaining
Princeton
Summer
Degree
Instructor
Moore
Seemed
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I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.
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Illness
Madness
Mental Illness
Schizophrenic
Rare
Observed
Escape
Happiest
Situations
Too Much Money
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It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me.
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Good Health
Impact
Prize
Security
Situation
Social Security
Unemployed
Unusual
Life Time Health
Beginning
Tremendous
Life Health Time
Reached
Winners
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Of course, the American education system is very inefficient in many ways compared to other countries in Europe or Japan, but it works in such a way that at least the few people who are going onto unusual careers and science can manage to get into that, even though they go through an earlier stage that doesn't give them much.
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Careers
Europe
Japan
Manage
Other Countries
Unusual
Compared
Countries
Earlier
Few People
Inefficient
Onto
Such A Way
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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. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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Aspect
Cosmos
Disability
Joy
Physical Health
Rationality
Relation
Characteristic
Concept
Entirely
However
Limit
One Aspect
Physical
Returned
Scientists
Seem
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It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.
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Whoever
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