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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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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Stepping forward, I step back, the two steps, one forward and one back, canceling one another so that after they have been completed, I am where I started, having done something but accomplished little, a useful metaphor for a great many activities in life.

"Any idiot," he said calmly but with immense conviction, "can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience."

A mathematical argument, once understood, is in its capacity to compel belief a miracle of enlightened life.

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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