Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth....
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all...
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, Jr. Tags: #Family, #Wish, #Insane, #JohnForbesNash, #Jr, #American, #MathematicianMini who’s...
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent. — Isaac Newton Tags: #Spring, #Natural, #Planets, #IsaacNewton, #English, #MathematicianMini who’s who: Isaac Newton : English...
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, Jr. Tags: #Work, #Research, #Mad, #JohnForbesNash,...