Adam Ferguson

Person · Open Library

Works

45

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1928-05-04

Active to

2006-08-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

33

Total plays

710

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,254x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,832x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,608x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,756x

5. Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

   · 1998 · cited 16,256x

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Quotes

• “The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.”
• “Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.”
• “Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.”
• “We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.”
• “Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform.”
• “The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1723-07-01 ) 1 July 1723, Logierait , Perthshire , Scotland

Died

22 February 1816 (1816-02-22) (aged 92), St Andrews , Fife , Scotland

Alma mater

University of Edinburgh , University of St Andrews

Era

18th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Scottish common sense realism , Scottish Enlightenment

Institutions

University of Edinburgh

Main interests

Sociology , political philosophy , ethics , history

Notable ideas

The principle of moral approbation

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