Classifications Quotes

#1. Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

H.G.Wells

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. 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.

David Lack

#4. Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

Ted Chiang

#6. 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.

Clyde Kluckhohn

#7. Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

Carolyn Maloney

#8. Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people who get into bad situations.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#9. All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. [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 ... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#11. If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.

Buddy Rich

#12. Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.

Thurgood Marshall

#13. 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.

Jeffrey Jones

#14. And then God, in his benevolence, tasked Adam with the nasty business of nomenclature, calling beasts of land and water and air for what he saw fit, giving them names, calling them names, pegging down their potentials to classifications, to genus, to species.

Carlos Malvar

#15. One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

#16. Order streamed from Noah in blue triangles and as the pure fury of his classifications rose around him, engulfing his life, they came to be called waves by others, who drowned, a world of them.

Anne Carson

#17. It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others ...

Andre-Marie Ampere

#18. Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Roland Barthes

#19. No. I'm saying that there is no such thing as the individual magics. There should be no differentiation between earth, air, fire and water. And why stop at those four classifications? Why isn't there wood magic or silk magic, or fish magic?

Michael Scott

#20. Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now.

Lou Gaglia

#21. It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Salva Kiir Mayardit

#22. Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

Christopher McDougall

#23. Love is great, but not as a password.

Matt Mullenweg

#24. In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance.

Rumi

#25. It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.

Mellody Hobson

#26. but now the news of the world aged him more than time itself.

Paulette Jiles

#27. Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.

Jurgen Appelo

#28. I breathe you," he whispered. "You're everything. You're the air."
-Gabriel

Sylvain Reynard

#29. A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

Stanislaw Lem

#30. The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

Morrissey

#31. All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

John F. Kennedy

#32. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

Thierry Henry