“ 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… 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 i… 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
“ Nash’s lifelong quest for meaning, control, and recognition in the context of a continuing struggle, not just in society, but in the warring impulses of his paradoxical self, was now reduced to a cari… Sylvia Nasar
“ A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a strong compulsion to learn by doing is one of the most reliable signs of genius. 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
“ James Glass, a political scientist at the University of Maryland who has studied the delusions of schizophrenia, writes, Delusion provides a certain, often unbreakable identity, and its absolute chara… Sylvia Nasar
“ Among the students, the Phantom was often held up as a cautionary figure: Anybody who was too much of a grind or who lacked social graces was warned that he or she was going to wind up like the Phanto… 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
“ 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 impu… 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
“ It was like a tornado, you want to hold on to everything you have, you don't want to let anything go. Sylvia Nasar
“ Para Dickens y Marx, la función de las empresas era controlar o explotar al trabajador. Para Mill, su función era enriquecer a los dueños. Para Marshall, la empresa no era una cárcel, y dirigir una em… Sylvia Nasar
