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

Bill Bryson
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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
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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
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Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy. by Richard Dawkins

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.

Richard Dawkins
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a... by Rick Moody

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

Rick Moody
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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
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