“Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.”— Mary Douglas
“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
“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”— Evelyn Waugh
“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
“It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.”— Carolus Linnaeus
“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
“Man is the sole species of his genus, the sole representative of his order and his subclass.”— Richard Owen
“We make up people in two senses. We create new classifications, and we fashion people who fall under them.”— Ian Hacking
“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
“Classification is the ordering of organisms into groups on the basis of their relationships.”— Ernst Mayr