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The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

Nicholas Murray Butler
Math, Newton, Defying
Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”

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 means.

Nicholas Murray Butler
Freedom, Mean, Individuality
Nicholas Murray Butler (1943). “What Does Freedom Mean?: An Address Delivered at the Parrish Memorial Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, September 5, 1943”

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 rests on the public will and on public appreciation.

Nicholas Murray Butler
Appreciation, Teaching, Democracy

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

Nicholas Murray Butler
Change, Four, Week

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.

Nicholas Murray Butler
Philosophy, Tools, Records
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER (1898). “THE MEANING OF EDUCATION AND OTHERS ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES”

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