William Fleming

Person · Open Library

Works

57

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1908-05-28

Active to

1964-08-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2

Total plays

5

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 62,994x

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

   · 1976 · cited 44,845x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,574x

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

   · 2010 · cited 30,950x

5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

   · 1958 · cited 28,686x

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Quotes

• “Moral Philosophy is the Science of human duty. The knowledge of human duty implies a knowledge of human nature. To understand what man ought to do, it is necessary to know what man is. Not that the Moral Philosopher, before entering upon those inquiries which peculiarly belong to him, must go over the Science of human nature in all its extent. But it is necessary to examine those elements of human nature which have a direct bearing upon human conduct.”
• “As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or energy. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.”
• “It is a fine observation of Plato in his Laws — that atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding.”
• “Atheists are confounded with Pantheists, such as Xenophanes among the ancients, or Spinoza and Schelling among the moderns, who, instead of denying God, absorb everything into him.”
• “A sense of grandeur and sublimity has been recognized as one of the reflex senses belonging to man. It is different from the sense of the beautiful, though closely allied to it. Beauty charms, sublimity moves us, and is often accompanied with a feeling resembling fear, while beauty rather attracts and draws us towards it.”
• “SYNTHESIS (σύν θέσις, a putting together, composition) — "consists in assuming the causes discovered and established as principles, and by them explaining the phenomena proceeding from them and proving the explanation." — Newton, Optics”

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