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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

~ John Forbes Nash

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

~ John Forbes Nash

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

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.

~ John Forbes Nash