NMNicholas Murray Butler

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Nicholas Murray Butler

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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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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03Undated

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

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04Undated

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

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07Undated

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

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