William Fleming

American politician and physician (1729-1795)

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Works: 57

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Trübsalen, die er nebst seiner frau erlitten
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The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical
A narrative of the sufferings and surprizing deliverances of William and Elizabeth Fleming
Eine Erzehlung von den Trübsalen und der wunderbahren Befreyung so geschehen an William Flemming und dessen Weib Elisabeth

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1908-05-28
Active to: 1964-08-12

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5 total works indexed

VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,673x
Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,968x
Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,035x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,753x
Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,540x

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Quotes

“Moral Philosophy is the Science of human duty. The knowledge of human duty implies a knowledge of human nature. To understand what man ought to do, it is necessary to know what man is. Not that the Moral Philosopher, before entering upon those inquiries which peculiarly belong to him, must go over the Science of human nature in all its extent. But it is necessary to examine those elements of human nature which have a direct bearing upon human conduct.”
“As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or energy. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.”
“It is a fine observation of Plato in his Laws — that atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding.”
“Atheists are confounded with Pantheists, such as Xenophanes among the ancients, or Spinoza and Schelling among the moderns, who, instead of denying God, absorb everything into him.”
“A sense of grandeur and sublimity has been recognized as one of the reflex senses belonging to man. It is different from the sense of the beautiful, though closely allied to it. Beauty charms, sublimity moves us, and is often accompanied with a feeling resembling fear, while beauty rather attracts and draws us towards it.”
“SYNTHESIS (σύν θέσις, a putting together, composition) — "consists in assuming the causes discovered and established as principles, and by them explaining the phenomena proceeding from them and proving the explanation." — Newton, Optics”