Nathan Kitchen

“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

“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

“To read Job correctly, I believe, we must read ourselves into the role of the Comforters by asking by plain evidence we may be aggressively dismissing --- and what human relationships we might be actively destroying --- in order to remain possessed of our comfortable ideological narratives.”
― Michael Austin

“Job's God seems to make it clear that He would rather we challenge Him vigorously than affirm Him uncritically.”
― Michael Austin