Total Derivative Exists

Famous quotes containing the words total, derivative and/or exists:

    “only total expression

    expresses hiding: I’ll have to say everything
    to take on the roundness and withdrawal of the deep dark:
    less than total is a bucketful of radiant toys.”
    —Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)

    “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)

    “Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)