Derivative Quotes
52 quotes by 51 authors
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly…
— Janet Morris
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such…
— Wyndham Lewis
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved…
— Tom Selleck
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
— Calista Flockhart
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I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it…
— Kid Koala
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But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral…
— Johann Bernoulli
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In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used…
— Hugo Rossi
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In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is…
— George Soros
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Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
— Nancy Pearcey
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There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about…
— James Berardinelli
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Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?
— Francois Le Lionnais
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The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political and economic establishments…
— Thomas Berry
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
— Steven Saylor
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Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.
— Steven Strogatz
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The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals…
— Edward S. Herman
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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
— Mary Oliver
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What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even…
— Kenneth Turan
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Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own…
— D. H. Lawrence
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