"Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations,……" — Nicholas Murray Butler
"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."
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25 Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler
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The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
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The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a…
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I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen,…
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The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and…
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The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms…
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The old world order changed when this war-storm broke. The old international order passed away as suddenly, as unexpectedly, and…
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Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
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Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.'
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This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes…
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Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time…
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
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Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.
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