The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless,… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
