Quotes About Classifications

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.

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

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.

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

Purity is not the same as morality but is about who or what is fit for the temple, and so classifications are made.

these were men whose indefatigable zeal modern philosophers were indebted for most of the foundations of their knowledge. They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names, and arrange in connected classifications, the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light. The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that's true to some degree.

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

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

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.

The next round's on me. Two more, Pilade. All right, then. There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics." "And that covers everybody?" "Oh, yes, including us. Or at least me. If you take a good look, everybody fits into one of these categories. Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

There is a continuity of all things that make classifications fictions. But all human knowledge depends upon arrangements. Then all books--scientific, theological, philosophical--are only literary.

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

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

A universidade moderna confere o privilégio de discordar apenas aos que foram testados e classificados como potenciais homens de dinheiro ou detentores de poder. Ninguém recebe um centavo dos fundos fiscais para formar-se nas horas vagas ou para educar outros, a não ser que possa comprová-lo com um certificado. As escolas escolhem para os estágios seguintes aqueles que, nos primeiros estágios do jogo, provaram ser bons investimentos para a ordem estabelecida.