Ernst von Glasersfeld

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5 total works indexed

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

   · 2014 · cited 23,795x

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

   · 2019 · cited 19,944x

3. ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

   · 2017 · cited 16,442x

4. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies

   · 2007 · cited 16,357x

5. STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets

   · 2018 · cited 15,375x

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Quotes

• “From an explorer who is condemned to seek 'structural properties' of an inaccessible reality, the experiencing organism now turns-into a builder of cognitive structures intended to solve such problems as the organism perceives.”
• “.. in spite of the fact that it often feels as though the meaning of words and sentences were conveyed to us by the sounds of speech or the signs on a printed page, It is easy to show that meanings do not travel through space and must under all circumstances be constructed in the head of the language users.”
• “What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.”
• “The history of scientific ideas shows all too blatantly that there has been no overall linear progression.”
• “For me, as I later came to say, cybernetics is the art of creating equilibrium in a world of possibilities and constraints. This is not just a romantic description, it portrays the new way of thinking quite accurately. Cybernetics differs from the traditional scientific procedure, because it does not try to explain phenomena by searching for their causes, but rather by specifying the constraints that determine the direction of their development.”

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