Break Quote by Russell Baker

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

— Russell Baker

“Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost”

— Russell Baker

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The…

— Russell Baker

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept…

— Albert Einstein

I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can remember.

— Alan Stern

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

— Michael Polanyi

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break…

— Russell Baker

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

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

— Emile Durkheim

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.

— Ansel Adams

The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it…

— William Whewell