Abraham Flexner

Person · Open Library

Born

1866

Died

1959

Works

69

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

   · 2015 · cited 24,237x

2. Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures.

   · 1964 · cited 18,272x

3. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 10,737x

4. A default mode of brain function

   · 2001 · cited 10,359x

5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,222x

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Quotes

• “Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the outstanding characteristic of modern thinking.”
• “universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.”
• “In the face of the history of the human race what can be more silly or ridiculous than likes or dislikes founded upon race or religion?”
• “A poem, a symphony, a painting, a mathematical truth, a new scientific fact, all bear in themselves all the justification that universities, colleges, and institutes of research need or require.”
• “Science, like the Mississippi, begins in a tiny rivulet in the distant forest. Gradually other streams swell its volume. And the roaring river that bursts the dikes is formed from countless sources.”
• “Thus it becomes obvious that one must be wary in attributing scientific discovery wholly to any one person. Almost every discovery has a long and precarious history. Someone finds a bit here, another a bit there. A third step succeeds later and thus onward till a genius pieces the bits together and makes the decisive contribution.”

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