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 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 Image
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share
Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
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 Image
I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
