This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.
Nicholas Murray ButlerTo 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 ButlerThe forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.
Nicholas Murray ButlerThe 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