Henry Steele Commager

Person · Open Library

Born

25 Oct 1902

Died

2 Mar 1998

Works

193

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

United States

Active from

1981

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,482x

2. The empirical mode decomposition and the Hilbert spectrum for nonlinear and non-stationary time series analysis

   · 1998 · cited 19,811x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,975x

4. ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions

   · 2016 · cited 15,459x

5. Nonparametric Tests Against Trend

   · 1945 · cited 14,310x

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Quotes

• “With the Sedition and Espionage Acts … the "red hysteria" of the Twenties, the Alien Registration Act of 1940, the loyalty tests and purges of the mid-Forties, the establishment of un-American Activities Committees, intolerance received, as it were, the stamp of official approval. Loyalty was identified with conformity, and the American genius, which had been experimental and even rebellious, was required to conform to a pattern.”
• “The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.”
• “If government, or those in positions of power and authority, can silence criticism by the argument that such criticism might be misunderstood somewhere, there is an end to all criticism, and perhaps an end to our kind of political system. For men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.”
• “The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.”
• “We are shocked when we see educators, timid before criticism and confused about first principles, betray their trust. And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.”
• “The American people have a stake in the maintenance of the most thorough-going inquisition into American institutions. They have a stake in nonconformity, for they know that the American genius is nonconformist.”

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