Classifications Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications. — Buddy Rich
• Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H.G. Wells
• The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society… — Margaret Mead

Who Wrote These Classifications Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 13 Classifications Quotes as follows:

• 1 Classifications Quote by H.G. Wells
• 1 Classifications Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• 1 Classifications Quote by David Lack
• 1 Classifications Quote by Stephen Jay Gould
• 1 Classifications Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• 1 Classifications Quote by B.K.S. Iyengar
• 1 Classifications Quote by Jeffrey Jones
• 1 Classifications Quote by Margaret Mead
• 1 Classifications Quote by Roland Barthes
• 1 Classifications Quote by Lancelot Hogben
• 1 Classifications Quote by Clyde Kluckhohn
• 1 Classifications Quote by Franz Boas
• 1 Classifications Quote by Buddy Rich