Differences Quote by Jacques Derrida

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…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Taxonomy, also called systematics, is the science-based hierarchical classification of the world's species. The area had traditionally been an obscure academic discipline dominated by…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the…

— Joseph H. Greenberg

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

— Antoine Lavoisier

“All organisms can make the most basic distinctions--between food and not-food, danger and safety, light and dark, same-species and not-same. But only people can…

— Scott Huler

English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit, a species,…

— Ayn Rand

The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can…

— John Stuart Mill

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it…

— Edward Sapir

“Classification, broadly defined, is the process of organizing knowledge into some systematic order. It has been considered the most fundamental activity of the human…

— Lois Mai Chan