John Locke

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Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1621

Active to

1677-08

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John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, classical republicans, and contributors to liberal theory. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau, many Scottish Enlightenment thinker

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5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 200,670x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,730x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,357x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 34,340x

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

   · 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Quotes

• “But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.”
• “To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
• “This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections ; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.”
• “Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”
• “This life affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of having done well, and the hopes of another life.”
• “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

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