Quotes Tagged With :taxonomy

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts.....

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring,....

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage,....

We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth....

As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct....

It may be worth while to illustrate this view of classification, by taking the case of languages. If....

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what....

If a curiously selective plague came along and killed all people of intermediate height, 'tall' and 'short'....