John N. Gray
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British political philosopher (born 1948)
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- Born
- 1945
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Society from the Inside Out
- The householder's world
- At home in the hills
- Domestic Mandala
- The householder's world
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5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,187x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,819x
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Quotes
- “I may not be as unambiguously hostile to capitalism as many people are, but what I don't like about it is the commodification of personal experiences, it turns everyone into actors.”
- “Terror is not now, if it ever was, something that comes to us from outside. It is a part of the society in which we live. Both liberals and neoconservatives believe terrorism can be dealt with by removing its causes. The truth is less reassuring. Al-Qaeda has mutated into a decentralised, often locally based type of apocalyptic terrorism and, in this new guise, seems to be acquiring a formidable momentum.”
- “If you want to understand the beliefs that are shaping global politics, read the Book of Revelation.”
- “Blair has been the modern man he claims to be: for him, a sense of subjective certainty is all that is needed for an action to be right. If deception is needed to realise the providential design, it cannot be truly deceitful.”
- “Liberals tend to regard being subjects of the Queen as an insult to their dignity. But at least the archaic structures by which we are ruled do not force us to define ourselves by blood, soil or faith, and we are protected from the poisonous politics of identity.”
- “The result of toppling tyranny in divided countries is usually civil war and ethnic cleansing.”
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1948 births20th-century British philosophers21st-century British philosophersAcademics of the London School of EconomicsAcademics of the University of EssexAlumni of Exeter College, OxfordAtheist philosophersBritish political philosophersCritics of MarxismFellows of Jesus College, OxfordHarvard University staffIsaiah Berlin scholarsLiving peoplePeople from South ShieldsPhilosophers of pessimism