Thom Yorke

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

English Musician

Mary Lou Jepsen

My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations.

American Businesswoman

Roy Blount, Jr.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

American Writer

Bill Viola

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

American Artist

Carroll O'Connor

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?

American Actor

Understand how adding prefixes or suffixes changes meaning.

Word Formation

Recognizing common roots can help guess meanings.

Common Roots

Cultural and historical context matters for origins.

Historical Context

Understanding where something comes from can clarify current uses.

Tracing Lineage

Recognize derivation in calculus as rate measurement.

Calculus Concept

Function Behavior

It shows how ownership or rights transfer legally.

Legal Changes

Proper documents are vital for proving legal derivation.

Documentation Importance

 But it's the morphological relatives - the ones that share the base O-N-E - That are really astonishing. There are the familiar ones, like "anyone," and "one-track" and "oneself" - those are obvious. But let's take a look at some unexpected derivations

Making sense of spelling...

 predators and surrounded by dinner in the form of anthropods and copepods what more could a fish ask for but maybe a female fish polar Cod intern is dependent upon by a whole range of animals including Narwhal the derivation

What lives in ice? PIPE...

 such as this 10th-century derivation of roots. The problem for the Medieval Spanish scholars who were tasked with translating this material

Derivation