Boundaries Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

— Neal Stephenson

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

— Stephen Jay Gould

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

— William Bridges

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.

— Jordan Peterson

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

— George Gaylord Simpson

It seems we're always in transition and that it's more about trends than it is about what's meaningful.

— Marlee Matlin

But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.

— Kim Gordon

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

— Charles Darwin

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

— H. G. Wells

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb