Classification Quotes

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a… — Roland Barthes
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great… — Ambrose Bierce
There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change… — Wallace D. Wattles
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the… — Carl Linnaeus
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night… — Camille Paglia
The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon… — Karl Pearson
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum… — Karl Pearson
I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and this country....They want it. Give… — Philip J. Corso
In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi… — Ejnar Hertzsprung
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe… — Lancelot Hogben
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither… — Roy Crowson
Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and… — Seymour Hersh
No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals… — Peter Singer
Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist. — Clyde Kluckhohn
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect… — Franz Boas
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly… — Charles Darwin
The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be… — John Stuart Mill
Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they will participate in… — Serge Monast

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