Edmund Burke

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,187x

2. Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype

   · 2001 · cited 20,353x

3. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3865 (1996)]

   · 1997 · cited 13,583x

4. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,117x

5. Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces

   · 2008 · cited 10,951x

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Quotes

• “The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”
• “"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.”
• “I could show, that the same faction has, in one reign, promoted popular seditions, and, in the next, been a patron of tyranny; I could show, that they have all of them betrayed the public safety at all times, and have very frequently with equal perfidy made a market of their own cause, and their own associates. I could show how vehemently they have contended for names, and how silently they have passed over things of the last importance.”
• “A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.”
• “The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”
• “The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”

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