Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

The question is, are there useful things that we can do with the results of a genome sequence that would bring benefit? And the…

— Mark Walport

There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there was a…

— Juan Enriquez

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At best, it…

— China Miéville

Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

— Alfred Kinsey

We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way…

— Rivka Galchen

“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box…

— Criss Jami

The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous…

— Raymond Cattell

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

— John Lahr

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

— Rick Moody

“It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect pedigree of…

— Charles Darwin

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

[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