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John Calvin Coolidge
(4 Jul 1872 - 5 Jan 1933)
American president and lawyer who was in office as the 30th President of the U.S. 1923-29.
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Science Quotes by John Calvin Coolidge (5)
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
— John Calvin Coolidge
In William Safire, Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (2004), 66.
There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.
— John Calvin Coolidge
Quoted in Charles W. Thompson, Presidents I've Known and Two Near Presidents (1929), 374.
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. … If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.
— John Calvin Coolidge
Address at a Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia (5 Jul 1926). In William J. Federer, A Treasury of Presidential Quotations (2004), 252.
Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilisation and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.
— John Calvin Coolidge
White House lawn speech to American Chemical Society, April 1924. Quoted In H. Hale, American Chemistry (1928), 8.
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.
— John Calvin Coolidge
Speech upon laying the cornerstone of the Jewish Community Center, Washington, D.C. (3 May 1925). In William J. Federer, A Treasury of Presidential Quotations (2004), 240.
