Taxonomy Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to…
— Rivka Galchen
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
— Rick Moody
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are…
— Alfred Kinsey
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It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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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[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
— John Lahr
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Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.
— Bill Bryson
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Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.
— Richard Dawkins
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Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and neuroscientists…
— Thomas R. Insel
Who Wrote These Taxonomy Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Taxonomy Quotes as follows: