Derivative Gain

Famous quotes containing the words derivative and/or gain:

“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 an extremely different thing as the religion of science the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)