[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
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If we possessed a perfect… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems -… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes. — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy,… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new… — William King Gregory Copy Share Image
“Males do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
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