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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… — Richard E. Blackwelder
• We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and… — Rivka Galchen
• I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way. — Rick Moody
• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not… — Alfred Kinsey
• 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… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp… — Stephen Jay Gould
• [About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases… — Richard E. Blackwelder
• Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr
• Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground. — Bill Bryson
• Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy. — Richard Dawkins
• Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of… — Thomas R. Insel

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