John Selden

Person · Open Library

Works

21

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Origin

United States

Active from

1929-05-14

Active to

1989-12-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

3

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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 34,340x

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

   · 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Quotes

• “You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's — not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you — not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity — not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul — a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.”
• “Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.”
• “The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?”
• “Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.”
• “'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.”
• “Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”

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Key facts

Born

16 December 1584, Salvington , Sussex

Died

30 November 1654 (1654-11-30) (aged 69), White Friars , London

Alma mater

Hart Hall, Oxford

Era

17th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Natural law , social contract , humanism

Main interests

Political philosophy , legal history

Notable ideas

Proposed an egoistic theory of moral motivation, maintained that natural law was revealed historically through (esp. Hebrew ) scripture , argued that civil law arises from contract

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Wikidata facts

Image

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