Nicholas Murray Butler > Quotes

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.”
― Nicholas Butler

“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
― Nicholas 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.”
― Nicholas Murray Butler

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.”
― Nicholas Murray Butler

“An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.”
― Nicholas Butler

“L'homme qui ne parle que de lui-même ne pense qu'à lui-même. Et l'homme qui ne pense qu'à lui même est irrémédiablement mal élevé. Il n'a pas d'éducation quel que soit le degré de son instruction.”
― Nicholas Murray Butler