Classification Quotations

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

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.

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

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

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

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