Quotes with classification

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• Science is the systematic classification of experience.

  ― George Henry Lewes
  English philosopher and critic (1817 - 1878)
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• You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.

  ― Thomas Mann
  German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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• Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!

  ― W. J. Reichmann
   
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• 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
  French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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• subject-the
• pretensions
• legislation
• propensity

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