Mark Pattison

Person · Open Library

Born

1813

Died

1884

Works

43

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,103

Total plays

10,958

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 65,142x

2. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 49,745x

3. Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

   · 1995 · cited 39,634x

4. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 39,066x

5. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 30,848x

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Quotes

• “A man who does not know what has been thought by those who have gone before him is sure to set an undue value upon his own ideas—ideas which have perhaps been tried and found wanting. As accumulated learning stifles the mental powers, so original thinking has been known to bring about a puffy, unsubstantial mental condition.”
• “I wanted not merely to get up my classics, but to penetrate to the secrets and mysteries which I vaguely understood to be somehow wrapt up in books, though they had not, as yet, been revealed to me. I was disconcerted to find that none of my new acquaintance had any share of this yearning curiosity.”
• “... I began at the beginning, and read Hind's Logic, Whately's Logic, Reid's Enquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense. But the book which was of most use to me on these subjects was Stewart's Elements. I found on odd volume of this in my father's study at Hauxwell. It attracted me; I read and re-read it with increasing satisfaction. To Dugald Stewart, an author now obsolete, I owe the first infusion of a taste for philosophical inquiry. ....”
• “In the Diary which begins 1845 there is a much larger infusion of secular matter. I find myself deep in the literary history of the eighteenth century, reading Gray's Correspondence, Prior's Life of Goldsmith, Hume's Life and Correspondence ...”

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