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Leslie Stephen

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Also known as Sir Leslie Stephen

English writer and mountaineer (1832–1904)

Person · Open Library

Born
1832
Died
1904
Works
153

Top works

  • Der Tummelplatz Europas (Playground of Europe)
  • Swift
  • Biography of Sir Walter Scott
  • History of English thought in the eighteenth century
  • The works of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1947-09-21

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Basic local alignment search tool

    · 1990 · cited 80,799x

  2. Convex Optimization

    · 2004 · cited 41,068x

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

    · 2020 · cited 36,423x

  4. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

    · 2021 · cited 29,252x

  5. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

    · 1938 · cited 24,536x

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Quotes

  • He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
  • The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.
  • Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
  • Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
  • Philistine – a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
  • A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to give a conversationalist a fair chance.

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