William Ernest Hocking

Person · Open Library

Born

1873

Died

1966

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1914-02-09

Active to

1984-09-06

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 61,508x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 43,872x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 38,978x

4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,722x

5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

   · 1958 · cited 28,525x

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Quotes

• “Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”
• “Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. This does not mean that he doubts it as a future fact. He accepts his own death, with that of others, as inevitable; plans for it; provides for the time when he shall be out of the picture. Yet, not less today than formerly, he confronts this fact with a certain incredulity regarding the scope of its destruction.”
• “I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.”
• “What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is—first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.”
• “We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?”
• “However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,—i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.”

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