But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which… — David Lack Copy Share Image
There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity -… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata,… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There are a few instances that arise in the unique context of domestic equal-protection challenges to governmental actions that are facially neutral… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I was part of the draft resistance movement in L.A. where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
“We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition.” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects;… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic… — Robert Bunsen Copy Share Image
Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing… — Robert A. Young Copy Share Image
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben Copy Share Image
Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no… — Clyde Kluckhohn Copy Share Image
What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
“Classification, broadly defined, is the process of organizing knowledge into some systematic order. It has been considered the most fundamental activity of… — Lois Mai Chan Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification,… — Stephanie D'Abruzzo Copy Share Image