"Science is the systematic classification of experience." — George Henry Lewes

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• Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget… — Roland Barthes
• Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy,… — Ambrose Bierce
• There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life… — Wallace D. Wattles
• The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the… — Karl Landsteiner
• Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names… — Carl Linnaeus
• Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold… — Camille Paglia
• The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit… — Karl Pearson
• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies… — Karl Pearson
• I had the evidence that a crash did happen here....Give this information to the young people of the world and… — Philip J. Corso
• In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the… — Unknown Author
• Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science… — Lancelot Hogben
• It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and… — Ernest Nagel

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