Joseph Priestley

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5 total works indexed

1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

   · 2016 · cited 38,797x

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

   · 2020 · cited 34,710x

3. Naturalistic inquiry

   · 1985 · cited 33,242x

4. When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM

   · 2019 · cited 19,898x

5. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

   · 1985 · cited 19,536x

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Quotes

• “We more easily give our assent to any proposition when the person who contends for it appears, by his manner of delivering himself, to have a perfect knowledge of the subject of it.”
• “All hereditary Government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a Government, is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds.”
• “And since every man retains, and can never be deprived of his natural right (founded on a regard to the general good) of relieving himself from all oppression, that is, from every thing that has been imposed upon him without his own consent; this must be the only true and proper foundation of all the governments subsisting in the world, and that to which the people who compose them have an unalienable right to bring them back.”
• “Governors will never be awed by the voice of the people, so long as it is a mere voice, without overt-acts.”
• “If the power of government be very extensive, and the subjects of it have, consequently, little power over their own actions, that government is tyrannical, and oppressive; whether, with respect to its form, it be a monarchy, an aristocracy, or even a republic.”
• “The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones…”

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