Alan Ryan

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5 total works indexed

1. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

   · 2013 · cited 34,706x

2. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.

   · 2000 · cited 27,743x

3. The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

   · 2000 · cited 23,818x

4. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,804x

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

   · 2019 · cited 20,048x

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Quotes

• “I say cowardice, because the stan­dards which is Isaiah Berlin himself has set for anyone who undertakes such an enterprise are dauntingly high. His ability to catch the allegiances and the emotional tone of the authors he has written about, as well as his ability to meet the commentator's first duty to the subtleties of their thought, has always meant that their per­ sonalities and ideas alike have remained in tact and alive.”
• “Mankind has always argued about justice and injustice, while social scientists and politicians have endlessly discussed the conditions which make justice more or less attainable. These essays discuss a more philosophical issue-what justice is and why it matters. Although their authors were philosophers, few of them were 'professional ' philosophers...”
• “This is appropriate. Justice is the most 'political' or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice. … Doing justice is not the primary purpose of the family, the classroom, the small business, even though a father, teacher, or employer ought to behave justly towards children, pupils, or employees when rearing them, teaching them, . and employing them.”
• “Justice is peculiarly stringent. Its demands may not be modified. Judges and rulers must 'do justice though the heavens fall', not allow family connections, friendship, or even personal worth to turn them aside.”
• “Justice is a virtue, but not one that makes people lovable.”
• “Justice stands in an awkward relationship with utility. The general practice of justice conduces to human welfare, probably more than anything else. The old tag sums up justice as 'honeste vivere, neminem laedere, suum cuique tribuere' … Yet, justice seems also to conflict with utility and even with the general welfare, let alone the welfare of particular people.”

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