Derive Quotes

Wherefrom are human values to be derived and how are they to be developed? Human values are born along with human birth. They exist in union. Unfortunately, man today separates himself from human values and yet wants to live as a human being. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

What we're having a problem with is, where was the three-foot figure derived from? - John Luther

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. - Lewis Mumfor

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. - Henry Miller

We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it. - Jennifer Granholm

We've been optimizing (culture) media on the existing stem cell lines since 1998, but it has only been recently that there have been dramatic improvements. This is the first time it has been possible for us to derive new cell lines in completely defined conditions in medium that completely lacks animal products. - James Thomson

We're ignorant of life in the universe. We only have one planet that serves as an example and in science it's not good to derive information from a sample size of one. - David Grinspoon

We're good listeners and good facilitators... We have to make a decision not to do anything that is vindictive, but just to try to do something that we can derive some benefit from... - Bernie Bickerstaff