John Adams

Person · Open Library

Born

1947-02-15

Works

23

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Canada

Active from

1959-11-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

351,853

Total plays

2,576,221

There are multiple artists with this name. Following are listed in order of prominence. (1) John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism. He learned the clarinet from his father and played in marching bands and community orchestras during his formative years. He began composing at the age of ten and heard his first orchestral pieces performed while still a teenager. The intellectual and artistic traditions of New Eng

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,670x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,728x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,357x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,339x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Quotes

• “Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he advanced was, "that a mere creature or finite being could not make satisfaction to infinite justice for any crimes," and that "these things are very mysterious." Thus mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.”
• “No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.”
• “Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. ... What a Eutopia — What a Paradise would this region be!”
• “Tis impossible to judge with much Precision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.”
• “A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.”
• “The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.”

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Wikidata facts

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