John Nash

(16 votes)   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.

John Forbes Nash
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(8 votes)   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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(8 votes)   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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(8 votes)   I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

John Nash
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(8 votes)   It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(8 votes)   I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

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(8 votes)   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.

John Nash
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