Derivative Quotes

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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
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
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Charles P. Kindleberger
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
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around. — Calista Flockhart
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
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
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
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
Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview. — Nancy Pearcey
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
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
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
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor
Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there. — Steven Strogatz
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
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work. — Mary Oliver
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
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
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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