Marginal may refer to:
- For marginal constituency in politics, see “Marginal seat”
- For the manga, see Marginal (manga)
- For marginal model in hierarchical linear modeling, see “Marginal model”
- For marginal observables in physics, see “Renormalization group”
- For marginal person in sociology, see “Marginalization”
- For marginal probability in probability theory, see “Marginal distribution”
- For economic concepts, see “Marginalism”, and the various articles to which “Marginal concepts” is linked
Famous quotes containing the word marginal:
“If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Of course I’m a black writer.... I’m not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren’t marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call “literature” is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hassidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, are effectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”
—Raymond Williams (1921–1988)