Classification Quotes

79 quotes by 73 authors

For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding.… — Don Berliner
If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications. — Buddy Rich
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H.G. Wells
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they… — Gichin Funakoshi
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we… — Stephen Jay Gould
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of… — Irving Babbitt
From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in… — Charles Darwin
There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological… — John Corapi
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification. — Roman Jakobson
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs.… — Robert Moss
Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin… — Joseph H. Greenberg
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about… — Camille
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the… — David Lack
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if… — Herbert Spencer
Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that… — William Wilson Morgan
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz

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