Quotes About Classification

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Turns out typecasting is a real thing.

People want to typecast you; it's human nature.

There are designations, like "economist," "prostitute," or "consultant," for which additional characterization doesn't add information.

Categorizing always produces reduction in true complexity.

We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.

And thus, the forms of life throughout the universe become divided into groups subordinate to groups.

Ä°nsan kendinin s?n?flay?c?s? olmasayd?, kendini yerleÅŸtirmek için ayr? bir tak?m kurmay? asla düÅŸünmezdi.

In the world of information science, the tricky question of where to put things is known as the "ontology problem.

Often they were arranged according to the whim of the owner, as scientific classification was still in flux, new systems evolving all the time. Categorising a universe that shifted every time a new ship blew into port proved both necessary and a challenge....some classified shells as "knobbed" versus "wrinkled," "the right lip broad" versus,"parallel lips," or listed insects as "naked wings," "sheathed wings" or "creeping.

What species is he?" "British

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

Houve até um projeto dizendo que se o mulato tivesse o cabelo liso era considerado branco, se o cabelo fosse crespo então o mulato era considerado negro.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

There is something in this Lametrie, a nice slip of our anthropocentrism. Why should Man be at the hub of all analogies? How would plants describe us, I wonder, what classification would they impose upon us? 'Described by a Plant' sounds like a good title to be used later. I feel we're being watched: by rubber plants, sparrow-grass, bonsai, small date palms, Chinese roses, geraniums and lemon trees. They keep an eye on us.

Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st, James 2nd, and the Old Pretender.

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

As to the 1,150,000,000 of the colored world, they are divided, as already stated, into four primary categories: yellows, browns, blacks, and reds.

M]any people are so quick to classify events as miraculous that it devalues the word.

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.