Jonathan Miller

Person · Open Library

Works

142

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1904-03-01

Active to

1944-12-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,594

Total plays

6,527

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is a British theatre and opera director, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in 1962 when the British comedy stage revue Beyond the Fringe (written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Miller himself) came to Broadway. Despite having seen only a few operas and not knowing how to read music <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jonathan+Mil

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,083x

2. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

   · 2003 · cited 51,817x

3. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

   · 2003 · cited 44,773x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,730x

5. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

   · 2015 · cited 30,164x

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Quotes

• “Perhaps I was too dumb, or just too interested in cricket or in girls, to ask myself any questions about religion. If I had not been, I might have, inevitably, asked myself questions that have troubled skeptics and unbelievers for as long as men and women have been skeptical or have lacked belief: "Is there really no God? And if there really is no supernatural dimension to the universe, why have so many people throughout history and in so many different cultures thought there was?"”
• “Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers. … Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons.”
• “[In casual conversation] The reason why I feel relatively indifferent to [the Anglican Church of England] is it's lost its power, and it's so desperately keen to solicit support that they're willing to throw God out of the window in order to retain it. God for the many of the Anglicans is nothing more than a sort of awkward geriatric relative, kept upstairs, who might be embarrassingly coming downstairs, incontinently, and cause trouble.”
• “With thoughtfulness—and, above all, with literacy—thoughts themselves become subjects of discussion in a way that they wouldn't have been before they were written down. It's not until they're written down that they become stable enough to bear examination in the same way that physical objects themselves can bear examination.”
• “While the early deists were busy reconstructing Christianity, at the same time being very careful to avoid the accusation of atheism, the world of science had been steadily progressing.”
• “Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions.”

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Wikidata facts

Image

Jonathan Miller appearing on "After Dark", 3 September 1988.jpg

Number of children

3

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