The derivative is an artifact, the first of the great conce… - David Berlinski

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The derivative is an artifact, the first of the great concepts of modern science that fails conspicuously to correspond to anything in real life.

David Berlinski

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About David Berlinski

David Berlinski (born 1942) is an American author who has written books about mathematics and the history of science as well as fiction. An opponent of evolution, he is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, an organization dedicated to promulgating the pseudoscience of intelligent design.

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It is here, at this very moment when the first utterly trivial differential equation is solved, that the secret form of words is revealed that makes modern science possible.

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Then he said what I knew—what I had always known—he would say. It is what the dead always say, and it is the only thing they say.
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The derivative is an artifact, the first of the great concepts of modern science that fails conspicuously to correspond to anything in real life. - David Berlinski

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