Warren Sturgis McCulloch

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5 total works indexed

1. Basic local alignment search tool

   · 1990 · cited 80,087x

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

   · 2020 · cited 34,742x

3. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)

   · 2016 · cited 22,933x

4. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 22,173x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,048x

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Quotes

• “Don't bite my finger, look where I am pointing.”
• “Because of the "all-or-none" character of nervous activity, events and the relations among them can be treated by means of propositional logic. It is found that the behaviour of every net can be described in these terms, with the addition of more complicated logical means for nets containing cycles; and that for any logical expression satisfying certain conditions, one can find in net behaving ever fashion it describes.”
• “[1917 Winter] Rufus Jones called me in. "Warren," said he, "what is thee going to be?" And I said, "I don't know." "And what is thee going to do?" And again I said, "I have no idea; but there is one question I would like to answer: What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number?" He smiled and said, "Friend, thee will be busy as long as thee lives."”
• “I met Walter Pitts, then in his teens, who promptly set me right in matters of theory. It is to him that I am principally indebted for all subsequent success. He remains my best adviser and sharpest critic. You shall never publish this until it passes through his hands.”
• “With all of these limitations and hazards well in mind, let us ask whether a knower so conceived is capable of constructing the physics of the world which includes himself. But, in so doing, let us be perfectly frank to admit that causality is a superstition.”

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