John Forbes Nash Quotes

#1. Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

John Forbes Nash

#2. Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

John Forbes Nash

#3. As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

John Forbes Nash

#4. It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

John Forbes Nash

#5. Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

John Forbes Nash

#6. 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.

John Forbes Nash