Scene 3
Nash’s theory paper earns him 14)kudos in his field and a 15)coveted research and teaching position at MIT.
Professor: You do realize this 16)flies in the face of 150 years of economic theory.
Nash: Yes, I do, sir.
Professor: That’s rather 17)pre-sumptuous, don’t you think?
Nash: Yes, sir.
Professor: Well, Mr. Nash, with a breakthrough of this 18)magnitude, I’m confident you will get any 19)placement you like. Wheeler Labs, they’ll ask you to recommend two team members. Steels and Frank are excellent choices.
Nash: Sol and Bender, sir.
Professor: Sol and Bender, are extraordinary mathematicians. Has it occurred to you, Mr. Nash, that Sol and Bender might have plans of their own?
Scene 4
Nash meets and falls in love with a student in his class, the lovely, elegant Alicia, who also loves him dearly.
Nash: Alicia, please don’t be angry, I just have a ton of work, again. I’m sorry, I haven’t had time to wrap it. Happy Birthday! This is 20)refractive of the faces of glass, you see, they create the full 21)wavelength of the 22)spectrum. So if you look inside it, you can see...
Alicia: Every possible colour.
Nash: Every possible colour. Remember you said that time that God must be a painter because of all the colours? At the governor’s house, you said that?
Alicia: I didn’t think you were listening.
Nash: I was listening.
Alicia: It’s beautiful!
Nash: Alicia, now we should have some kind of long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of 23)verifiable 24)empirical data.
Alicia: I’m sorry to say that at the moment I need to define my girlish notions of romance. A proof... verifiable data... OK, well, how big is the universe?
Nash: Infinite.
Alicia: How do you know?
Nash: I know because all the data indicate the same thing.
Alicia: But has it been proven yet?
Nash: No.
Alicia: You haven’t seen it yet?
Nash: No.
Alicia: How do you know for sure?
Nash: I don’t. I just believe it.
Alicia: It’s the same with love, I guess. Well, the part that you don’t know is that I want to marry you.
