A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner 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
I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They… — Philip J. Corso Copy Share Image
From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can… — Charles Darwin 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
Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Which [the cyber hacking] is why one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about. — Robert Lee Morris Copy Share Image
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an… — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name.… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according… — Franz Boas 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
Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image