The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical methodmore daring than anything that the history of philosophy recordsof 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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Nicholas Murray Butler was a 19th-century American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Nicholas Murray Butler was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. Butler was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the late James S. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Philosophy — Deep thoughts on existence, knowledge, and the nature of reality
- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world