Classification Quotes

Classification Quote of the day

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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.

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

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.

I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

Those who violate classification rules will be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law, something which we don't do too much anymore.

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

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

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.

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

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

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

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.

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.

Which [the cyber hacking] is why one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information.

Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.

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

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.