Ronald Syme

Person · Open Library

Born

1903

Died

1989

Works

134

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Québec

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

   · 1986 · cited 24,377x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,616x

3. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

   · 1988 · cited 15,809x

4. Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

   · 2005 · cited 15,583x

5. An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest

   · 2006 · cited 13,009x

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Quotes

• “In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks behind the façade; and Roman history, Republican or Imperial, is the history of the governing class. The marshals, diplomats, and financiers of the Revolution may be discerned again in the Republic of Augustus as the ministers and agents of power, the same men but in different garb. They are the government of the New State.”
• “Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact.”
• “Security and aggression are terms of partisan interpretation.”
• “The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth.”
• “The political cant of a country is naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of the vested interests. In times of peace and prosperity it commands a wide measure of acquiescence, even of belief. Revolution rends the veil.”
• “At Rome all men paid homage to libertas, holding it to be something roughly equivalent to the spirit and practice of Republican government. Exactly what corresponded to the Republican constitution was, however, a matter not of legal definition but of partisan interpretation. Libertas is a vague and negative notion—freedom from the rule of a tyrant or a faction. It follows libertas [liberty], like regnum [kingship] or dominatio [despotism], is a convenient term of political fraud.”

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