Nathan Kitchen

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Nathan.

https://www.goodreads.com/nathankitchen

Loading...
George MacDonald
“Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them—and as one day we must always see them, only far better—should we ever know dullness? Greatly as we might enjoy all forms of art, much as we might learn through the eyes and thoughts of other men, should we fly to these for deliverance from ennui, from any haunting discomfort? Should we not just open our own child-eyes, look upon the things themselves, and be consoled?”
George MacDonald
tags: wonder

“But even italics fail to do justice to this magnificent outburst, the last stand of William James for the spirit of man. What can one say about the philosophical bravado, the cosmic effrontery, the sheer panache of this ailing philosopher with one foot in the grave talking down the second law of thermodynamics? It is a scene fit to set alongside the death of Socrates. The matchless incandescant spirit of the man!”
Robert D. Richardson Jr., William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

Paul  Lockhart
“Mathematics is the music of reason. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be alive, damn it.”
Paul Lockhart , A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

G.H. Hardy
“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”
G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

year in books
Roger
819 books | 176 friends

Mike
1,483 books | 12 friends

Alexis
432 books | 49 friends

R. Kitchen
213 books | 53 friends

Aaron B...
131 books | 6 friends

Karen K...
1 book | 1 friend

Michell...
189 books | 7 friends

Megan
226 books | 42 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Nathan

Lists liked by Nathan