“Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.”— Mary Douglas
“The characters of the Chou Kou Tien molar are such that it must be regarded as representing a new and primitive hominid genus.”— Davidson Black
“The ultimate goal is a classification of languages... based on the fundamental principle that languages which show widespread and systematic resemblances in sound and meaning are related.”— Joseph Greenberg
“Man is the sole species of his genus, the sole representative of his order and his subclass.”— Richard Owen
“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”— Evelyn Waugh
“I shall consider the whole of the metropolitan poor in three separate phases, according as they will work, they can't work, and they won't work.”— Henry Mayhew
“It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.”— Carolus Linnaeus
“Of the thousand millions of human beings that are said to constitute the population of the entire globe, there are—socially, morally, and perhaps even physically considered—but two distinct and broadly marked races, viz., the wanderers and the settlers.”— Henry Mayhew
“We make up people in two senses. We create new classifications, and we fashion people who fall under them.”— Ian Hacking
“There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; a second which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others.”— Niccolò Machiavelli