Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H. G. Wells 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
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
I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type… — Mike Vallely 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
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
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
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize… — Staceyann Chin 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
“Classification of Vegetables The classification of vegetables is by a specific part of the plant, as follows:Δ Classification Example Roots Carrots, radishes,… — Ruby Parker Puckett Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is… — William James Copy Share Image
Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this… — Charles Darwin 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
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
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
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
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
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
It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant… — Maturin Murray Ballou Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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