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William Thomson
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Archbishop of York (1819–1890)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1746
- Died
- 1817
- Works
- 27
Top works
- Thomson's dictionary of banking
- Mammuth, or Human nature displayed on a grand scale
- Sermons preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel
- Memoirs of the life and gallant exploits of the old Highlander
- An CVIII years of the life, and a relation of the gallant exploits of the Old Highlander, Serjeant Donald Macleod
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- Listeners
- 8,603
- Total plays
- 28,317
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,493x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,862x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,972x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,525x
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Quotes
- “I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”
- “Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.”
- “I am afraid I am not in the flight for “aerial navigation”. I was greatly interested in your work with kites; but I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the aëronautical Society.”
- “Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but 'vector' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.”
- “Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.”
- “Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.”
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- date of birth
- 1819-02-11
- date of death
- 1890-12-25
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1819 births1890 deaths19th-century Anglican archbishops19th-century Anglican theologiansAlumni of the Queen's College, OxfordArchbishops of YorkBishops of Gloucester and BristolFellows of the Queen's College, OxfordFellows of the Royal Geographical SocietyFellows of the Royal SocietyMembers of the Privy Council of the United KingdomPeople educated at Shrewsbury SchoolPeople from WhitehavenProvosts of the Queen's College, Oxford