Alexander von Humboldt

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5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 49,741x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,720x

3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

   · 2015 · cited 30,181x

4. SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

   · 2012 · cited 24,111x

5. IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

   · 2014 · cited 23,842x

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Quotes

• “Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.”
• “(In 2019) more than 150 years ago, Alexander von Humboldt warned that “the restless activity of large communities of men gradually despoil the face of the Earth”.”
• “Devoted from my earliest youth to the study of nature, feeling with enthusiasm the wild beauties of a country guarded by mountains and shaded by ancient forests, I experienced in my travels, enjoyments which have amply compensated for the privations inseparable from a laborious and often agitated life.”
• “One of the noblest characteristics which distinguish modern civilization from that of remoter times is, that it has enlarged the mass of our conceptions, rendered us more capable of perceiving the connection between the physical and intellectual world, and thrown a more general interest over objects which heretofore occupied only a few scientific men, because those objects were contemplated separately, and from a narrower point of view.”
• “The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.”
• “Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”

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