"By the early 1880s it is clear his competence had expanded to the full spectrum of the mathematical sciences: Fourier…"

"Edgeworth lacked the force that produces impressive treatises and assembles adherents; amiable and generous, he never…"

"We were created to be creators."

"It is ironic that so often we continue to live like paupers though our inheritance of spirit is so vast."

"One of the great modern philosophers of beauty, Immanuel Kant, spoke of the joy we take in the Beautiful as 'disinter…"

"In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult bel…"

"When we write or when we read, it is easy to forget that the beginnings is not the word, but the scream. Faced with t…"

"The stock market rises every time there is an increase in unemployment. Students are imprisoned for struggling for fr…"

"Our anger is directed not just against particular happenings but against a more general wrongness, a feeling that the…"

"The horrors of the world continue. That is why it is necessary to do what is considered scientifically taboo: to scre…"