Classification Quotes
79 quotes by 73 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.
— Carl Linnaeus
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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
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All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
— George P. Shultz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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