Russell Jacoby

Person · Open Library

Born

23 April 1945

Works

11

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

   · 2000 · cited 23,014x

2. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein

   · 1982 · cited 18,691x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,783x

4. Atherosclerosis — An Inflammatory Disease

   · 1999 · cited 17,125x

5. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,882x

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Quotes

• “The application of planned obsolescence to thought itself has the same merit as its application to consumer goods; the new is not only shoddier than the old, it fuels an obsolete social system that staves off its replacement by manufacturing the illusion that it is perpetually new.”
• “The free market in ideas has never been free, but always a market. To undo this necessitates not commissars and censors but critical intelligence loyal to an objective notion of truth. If there is a repressive tolerance, then there is also a liberating intolerance.”
• “Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. … The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.”
• “In the name of a new theory past theory is declared honorable but feeble; one can lay aside Freud and Marx—or appreciate their limitations—and pick up the latest at the drive-in window of thought.”
• “Society has lost its memory, and with it, its mind. The inability or refusal to think back takes its toll in the inability to think.”
• “The general loss of memory is not to be explained solely psychologically; it is not simply childhood amnesia. Rather it is social amnesia—memory driven out of mind by the social and economic dynamic of this society.”

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