John Climacus

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1932-02-08

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,591x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,635x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,910x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,581x

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

   · 1992 · cited 29,131x

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Quotes

• “Even if glory is God-given, yet it is excellent to divert it from oneself with the shield of humility.”
• “The man who associates with people of the world or approaches them after his renunciation will certainly either fall into their traps or will defile his heart by thinking about them; or if he is not defiled himself yet by condemning those who are defiled, he too will himself be defiled.”
• “Obedience is the tomb of the will and the resurrection of humility.”
• “He whose will and desire in conversation is to establish his own opinion, even though what he says is true, should recognize that he is sick with the devil's disease.”
• “A monastery is an earthly heaven.”
• “Constantly wrestle with your thought, and whenever it wanders call it back to you”

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Key facts

Born

c. 579 AD , Syria

Died

March 649 (aged 69 – 70), Mount Sinai

Venerated in

Catholic Church , Eastern Orthodox Church

Feast

30 March, Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

Attributes

Clothed as a monk , sometimes with an Abbot 's paterissa (crozier), sometimes holding a copy of his Ladder

Major works

The Ladder of Divine Ascent

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