Classification Quote by H. G. Wells Download Open image “Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.” — H. G. Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Classification Crude Curse Generalization History Life Organized Organized life
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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