John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes

"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 Forbes Nash, Jr.
(Related: Health, Disability, Joy, Scientists, Style, Thinking)

"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
(Related: Mathematics, Spring)

"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."
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
(Related: Circumstances, Research, Thinking)

"It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another."
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

"I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time."
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
(Related: Time, Ideas)

"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."
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
(Related: Choice, Competition, Study)

"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."
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
(Related: Legal, Argument, Hospitals, Months)