Albums Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for…

— Richard E. Blackwelder

Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

— Bill Bryson

“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

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

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

— William James

“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

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

— Rick Moody

“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At best, it…

— China Miéville

[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

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

— Gretchen Rubin

In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of…

— Alan Stern