Ernest Barnes

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5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,410x

2. Surface plasmon subwavelength optics

   · 2003 · cited 10,474x

3. Spurious but systematic correlations in functional connectivity MRI networks arise from subject motion

   · 2012 · cited 7,214x

4. Chronic inflammation in fat plays a crucial role in the development of obesity-related insulin resistance

   · 2003 · cited 6,727x

5. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,604x

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Quotes

• “The astonishing thing about Einstein's equations is that they appear to have come out of nothing.”
• “The conclusion seems to be irresistible that such laws of nature as the principle of conservation of energy, the principle of conservation of momentum and the law of gravitation are necessary consequences of our modes of measurement. They are, in fact, elaborately disguised identities which could have been predicted a priori by a being of sufficiently powerful analytical insight who fully understood all that is implied in the way we measure space-time intervals.”
• “Our own attitude to intercourse with "spirits" must be determined not by the authority of great teachers of the 13th or any other century, but by our examination in the light of the best secular knowledge of our time of the revelation of spiritual truth given by Christ.”
• “A perfectly evil human society is unthinkable: it would be self-destructive. We therefore deny that any society of absolutely evil spirits could be permanent. Evil in short, cannot be a unifying spiritual principle: to put it colloquially, there must be some good in the Devil or he must ultimately destroy himself. It is certain that the Devil cannot be the creative source of evil in the same way that God is the creative source of good.”
• “Human experience has pronounced "black magic" a delusion. Its practice is criminal folly: criminal because its objective is evil, folly because the means employed are futile.”
• “We see in man three elements; the material body, the life principle and the element of human personality. The last has only slowly reached its present complexity and is still far from the power and perfection that we can imagine it will some day possess.”

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