Classification Quotes

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In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any… — Jons Jacob Berzelius
Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed… — Stephen Jay Gould
The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished… — Carl Linnaeus
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to… — William James
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. — Carl Linnaeus
Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of… — Robert A. Young
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as… — William H. Seward
Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness… — Gerhard Richter
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state,… — Kenneth Burke
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it. — George P. Shultz
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of… — Mary Douglas
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells,… — Archibald Garrod
I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious… — Jeffrey Jones
I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this… — Staceyann Chin
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and… — Maturin Murray Ballou
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that… — J. Philippe Rushton
When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the… — Barrows Dunham
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT… — Craig A. Evans

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