"The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus……" — Nicholas Murray Butler
"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 history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason."
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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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Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand…
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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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