Classification, broadly defined, is the process of…

If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out…

— Mary Douglas

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

— George Henry Lewes

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization…

— Ernest Nagel

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

— Mary Douglas

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic…

— Camille Paglia

Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and…

— Thurgood Marshall

Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification…

— Hillary Clinton

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe…

— J. Philippe Rushton

Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing…

— Robert Moss

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of…

— Carl Linnaeus

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein…

— Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

“Write in hashtags!”

— Steven Magee

[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...…

— Kenneth E. Boulding