Sylvia Nasar Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Sylvia Nasar
A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. — Sylvia Nasar
...his condition in Roanoke is a strong testament that lassitude, indifference and the peculiarities of his thought were primarily the consequences of his illness and not of the early attempts to treat it.
The popular view that anti-psychotics were chemical straight jackets that suppressed clear thinking and voluntary activity seems not to be borne out in Nash's case.
If anything, the only periods when he was relatively free of hallucinations, delusions and the erosion of will were the periods following either insulin treatment or the use of anti psychotics.
In other words, rather than reducing Nash to a zombie, medication seemed to reduce zombie like behavior. — Sylvia Nasar
RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'. — Sylvia Nasar
In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who "fears love almost as much as he fears hatred" may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.21 — Sylvia Nasar
I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found. — Sylvia Nasar
Woodrow Wilson, like most other educated Americans of his time, despised mathematics, complaining that "the natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be leaned by painful process of drill. — Sylvia Nasar
Hopes of putting their sad history behind them was bound to be bittersweet. — Sylvia Nasar
Fermat's assertion that if n is any whole number and p any prime, then n multiplied by itself p times minus n is divisible by p. — Sylvia Nasar
Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you! — Sylvia Nasar
How could you,' Mackey asked, 'how could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical proof. . . how could you believe that extra terrestrials are sending you messages? How could you believe that you are being recruited by aliens from outer space to save the world? How could you . . .?' "Nash looked up at last and fixed Mackey with an unblinking stare as cool and dispassionate as that of any bird or snake. 'Because,' Nash said slowly in his soft, reasonable southern drawl, as if talking to himself,'the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously. — Sylvia Nasar
Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion. — Sylvia Nasar
several studies have since shown that basic military training during peacetime can precipitate schizophrenia in men with a hitherto unsuspected vulnerability to the illness.15 — Sylvia Nasar
A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all. — Sylvia Nasar
People look to the order of numbers when the world falls apart. — Sylvia Nasar
You are all my reasons. — Sylvia Nasar
It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go. — Sylvia Nasar