Classification Quotes

“He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To hear him tell it, this classification of species was the hope of Man.”

“There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe—before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.”

“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”

“Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.”

“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.”

“...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.”

“The innovation classification is not just based on the required investments, or on the potential market, but on its evolution abilities.”

“I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.”

“Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification.xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes”