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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
- 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
- Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben
- Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no… — Clyde Kluckhohn
- 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… — David Lack