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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… — Roland Barthes
- There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged… — Wallace D. Wattles
- Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown… — Carl Linnaeus
- Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben
- It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is… — Ernest Nagel
- It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according… — Franz Boas
- For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their… — Don Berliner
- Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an… — Nicholas Murray Butler