Taxonomy Quotes

• Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Dull, Causes

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sólo la mente humana inventa categorías y trata de encasillar los hechos en casilleros separados.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Lgbt Pride, Lgbt Community, Mind

  Comportamiento sexual en el varón humano cap. 21 (1948)

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• Los varones no representan dos poblaciones distintas, heterosexuales y homosexuales. El mundo no se divide en ovejas y cabras. No todo es negro ni todo es blanco.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Dos, Blanco, Negro

  Comportamiento sexual en el varón humano cap. 21 (1948)

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• Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.

  Bill Bryson

  Art, Sometimes, Battleground

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• The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Knowledge, Science, Branches

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• Una taxonomía de las capacidades, como cualquier otra taxonomía científica, puede parecer a cierto tipo de estudiantes impacientes una orgía gratuita de pedantería. Sin duda, la compulsión por la pulcritud intelectual se manifiesta a veces de forma prematura y otras de forma excesiva, pero una buena taxonomía descriptiva, como descubrió Darwin al desarrollar su teoría, y como descubrió Newton en la obra de Kepler, es la madre de leyes y teorías.

  Raymond Cattell

  Madre, Ley, Intelectual

  "La Inteligencia: Su estructura, crecimiento y acción". Libro de Raymond Cattell (p. 61), 1987.

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• The most important point of [Susan] Fiske's work is that it provides a taxonomy for our differing feelings about different Thems - sometimes fear, sometimes ridicule, sometimes contemptuous pity, sometimes savagery.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Feelings, Important, Different

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Al final no pensarás en "el negocio de Internet". Pensará más bien en las noticias, el tiempo, los deportes, pero ni siquiera esa taxonomía está clara.

  Bill Gates

  Deportes, Pensamiento, Tiempo

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• Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Changed, Sequencing, Genome

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• La taxonomía de las aves es un campo difícil debido a las severas limitaciones anatómicas que impone el vuelo. Hay un número limitado de formas de diseñar un ave capaz, por ejemplo, de atrapar insectos en el aire, con el resultado de que las aves de hábitats similares tienden a tener anatomías muy parecidas, sea cual sea su ascendencia. Por ejemplo, los buitres americanos se parecen mucho a los del Viejo Mundo, pero los biólogos se han dado cuenta de que los primeros están emparentados con las cigüeñas y los segundos con los halcones, y que su parecido se debe a su estilo de vida común.

  Jared Diamond

  Aire, Pájaro, Diseño

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• It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Years, Twenties

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

  John Lahr

  Spiritual, White, America

  "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Two, Development, Answers

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.106, Penguin

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• [About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases the interest lay in the value of the suggestion and sometimes in the obvious need for rebuttal.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Science, Interesting, Systematic

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• I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

  Rick Moody

  Way, Breaking Down, Categorization

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• [En ciencia, todo modelo depende de una taxonomía previamente elegida] un conjunto de clasificaciones en las que dividimos la enorme complejidad del mundo real... La tierra, el trabajo y el capital son agregados extremadamente heterogéneos, no mucho mejores que la tierra, el aire, el fuego y el agua.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Real, Tierra, Fuego

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• But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy, and I'd say that I do have some tools left. There are days I can't make a sentence out of anything, and anything I make looks clunky to me. But I still have a general grasp of the cliché, of the generic sentence. And if I didn't have that, I'd be a blob of putty on the floor.

  Richard Meltzer

  Tools, Looks, Today

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in-a way to signal those lies that could more accurately be understood as dreams.

  Rivka Galchen

  Dream, Liars, Lying

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Reality, Two

  Comportamiento sexual en el varón humano cap. 21 (1948)

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