I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
Meaning of the quote
John Forbes Nash, Jr. is an American mathematician who sometimes had unusual thoughts or ideas at different times in his life. This quote suggests that he experienced periods where his thinking was a bit unusual or different from what might be considered normal.
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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
It’s almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.
I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
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.
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.
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.
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.
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.