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“My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.”

Science Used Stars Term Interest Astronomy Magnitude Brightness Classification Nomenclature

“Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.”

Believe Law Race Principles Politician Findings Decided Prejudice Assuming Sanctions Anthropology Genetics Classification Anthropologists

Author:Lancelot Hogben

“God created, Linnaeus ordered.”

God Science Order Classification Linnaeus

Author:Sten Lindroth

“It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.”

Science Desire Goal Principles Knowledge Evidence Organization Accounts Bases Explanation Systematic Distinctive Factual Classification

Author:Ernest Nagel

“There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe-before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.”

Firsts Has Beens Use Lying Purpose Universe Process Can Do Study Materials Authority Bases Mathematics Fundamentals Counting Propose Select Measurement Measuring Classification

Book:Classification and Biology

Source: Classification and Biology

“Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and our tax dollars. We would know much less about the powers of the Executive, and its ability to hide wrong doing behind secrecy and classification. The Center takes the notion of integrity very seriously, and its investigations are a model for today's good journalism and, we all hope, an inspiration for the mainstream press to do more.”

“No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals themselves. But the classification "pest" is our own, and a rabbit that is a pest is as capable of suffering, and as deserving of consideration, as a white rabbit who is a beloved companion animal.”

Seems Suffering Given Interest White Animal Capable Concern Liberation Beloved Consideration Companion Rabbits Deserving Classification Animal Liberation Pests Companion Animals

Book:Animal Liberation

Source: Animal Liberation

“Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.”

Law Science Principles Concepts Discovery Uniformity Classification

Author:Clyde Kluckhohn

“It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind.”

“Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly to reappear, though it would be quite impossible to give definitions by which each group could be distinguished from other groups, as all would blend together by steps as fine as those between the finest existing varieties, nevertheless a natural classification, or at least a natural arrangement, would be possible.”

Source: On the Origin of Species

“The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.”

Made Important Ends Science Natural Numbers Greater Groups Objects Importance Philosophical Artificial Arrangements Propositions Classification

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they will participate in any kind of sexual orgy, some to be kept as sexual slaves.”

Humans Kind Children Christian Used Black Plans Sacrifice Mass Slave Ceremony Classification

Author:Serge Monast

“For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding. Inasmuch as many of these sights appeared to be solid objects having impressive performance, they have become known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or, colloquially, flying saucers. Their positive identification is one of the major public scientific challenges of the era, with a significant number of these sights so far defying all reasonable efforts at classification.”

“If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.”

Ifs Play Classification

Author:Buddy Rich

“Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.”

“Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.”

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Author:H. G. Wells

“The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory genius of the Greeks; no primitive peoples have ever come to study us. This is, on the one hand, a disinterested, intellectually inspired impulse. It is one of our glories. But it is, on the other, part and parcel of exploitation. [] The Western obsession with inquiry, with analysis, with the classification of all living forms, is itself a mode of subjugation, of psychological and technical mastery.”

“There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future.”

Knows Men Should May Art Different School Belief Progress Heard Objects Claims Contemporary Pursue Martial Arts Unusual Founders Colleagues Orderly Karate Instructors Classification

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.”

Littles Two Reason Born Pleasure Groups Drug Tragedy Crisis Currents Accidents Alcohol Substance Categories Divided Items Phony Cannabis Classification

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.”

Three Christianity Type Lust Traditional Sensations Distinguished Classification

Author:Irving Babbitt

“From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.”

Life Inspirational Firsts Found Stars Groups Degrees Dawn Arbitrary Constellations Interdependence Classification Descending

Book:On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“There are people who say, 'Oh every time Catholics make the sign of the cross they re-crucify Christ.' Look, that's what comes under the theological classification of happy horse manure! That's bologna, absolute bologna! They don't know anything about our religion, and I don't purport to know anything about theirs. I respect theirs, respect ours. When we make the sign of the cross, we are simply making a statement of faith. I believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and I believe in the sign of the cross, because that is the sign of our salvation!”

People Knows Believe Looks Spirit Father I Believe Christ Son Holy Crosses Horse Absolutes Catholic Salvation I Believe In Statements Holy Spirit Theological Classification Manure Bologna

Author:John Corapi

“It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.”

Problem Identity Solutions Variety Disturbing Classification

Author:Roman Jakobson

“The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.”

Trying Made Shapes Solutions Clouds Philosopher Psychologist Classification

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.”

Source: Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death

“Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.”

Curiosity Practicals Classification

Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.”

Courses Language Goal Ultimate Species Comprehensive Implications Ultimate Goal Classification

Author:Joseph H. Greenberg

“Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.”

“The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.”

“Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.”

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Book:Darwin's Finches

Source: Darwin's Finches

“Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so.”

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Author:Herbert Spencer

“As mineralogy constitutes a part of chemistry, it is clear that this arrangement [of minerals] must derive its principles from chemistry. The most perfect mode of arrangement would certainly be to allow bodies to follow each other according to the order of their electro-chemical properties, from the most electro-negative, oxygen, to the most electro-positive, potassium; and to place every compound body according to its most electro-positive ingredient.”

Body Science Order Perfect Principles Clear Negative Property Ingredients Chemistry Chemicals Arrangements Oxygen Compounds Minerals Classification Potassium

Author:Jons Jacob Berzelius

“Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.”

People Knows Looks Use Science Fool Statements Dumb Classification Phenomenology

Author:William Wilson Morgan

“Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.”

Animal Affinity Classification

Book:An Essay on Classification

Source: An Essay on Classification

“In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.”

Giving Ideas Body Order Opinion Fit Chemistry Chemicals Electrical Classification Arranging

Author:Jons Jacob Berzelius

“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 prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.”

Source: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

“The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.”

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Author:Carl Linnaeus

“The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Doe Important Would Be Science Class Objects Unique Filled Intellect Devotion Apology Outrage Classification Crabs

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.”

Should Science Names Given Ought Plant Stable Classification

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“Using the risk-based approach presented by the ISPE Guide (i.e., system and component level classification) limited qualification activities to verifying and testing critical aspects of direct impact systems and their critical components.”

Levels Risk Activity Approach Aspect Direct Impact Critical Guides Testing Components Qualifications Classification Pharmaceutical

Author:Robert A. Young

“All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.”

World This World Boundaries Transition Classification

Book:The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

“You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get rid of that screen to be able to see what is behind. X's ideas are limited, that is why he remains on the surface. Y got rid of the limits, so she always goes to the depths. We should always meet people and new subjects with no set frame of mind. We have to live like that even after long acquaintance. We must get rid of every set idea to approach everything and everyone with love.”

People Should Mind Long Ideas Light Able Behinds Subjects Limits Approach Remains Depth Surface Screens Borders Acquaintance Classification Frame Of Mind

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.”

States Seems Courses Class Slave Mere Southern Imaginary Propositions Conceit Equilibrium Classification Free State

Author:William H. Seward

“Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.”

Kind Different States Social Degrees Different Kinds Continuity Corresponding Classification Specialization Social Status

Book:A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives

Source: A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives

“The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.”

Higher Reports Secrecy Classification

Author:George P. Shultz

“If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.”

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Author:Mary Douglas

“Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.”

“I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.”

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Author:Jeffrey Jones

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