Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Nicholas Murray Butler More Quotes by Nicholas Murray Butler More Quotes From Nicholas Murray Butler To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence. Nicholas Murray Butler teachingreligiouschristian America is the best half-educated country in the world. Nicholas Murray Butler educationcountryamerica What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point. Nicholas Murray Butler broadsmenneeds The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. Nicholas Murray Butler 30th-birthdaytombstonepeople 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 democracyteachingappreciation The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day. Nicholas Murray Butler weekfourchange The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method Nicholas Murray Butler newtondefyingmath 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 individualityfreedommean 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 recordstoolsphilosophy Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. Nicholas Murray Butler
