Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes

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• The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
• 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.
• 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 university…
• I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have…
• The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that…
• The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom…
• The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and as completely as if it…
• Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
• Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'
• This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging…
• 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…
• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
• Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.
• Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!
• There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to…
• What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.
• The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.
• Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.
• Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there may be hope…
• The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

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