Taxonomies Quotes

“Until he had come up with a name, he was too pathetic to look at -- a real idiot. But now that he had some label like graviconcentrate, he thought that he understood everything and life was a breeze.”
― Arkady Strugatsky

“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.”
― Ruth Padel, Darwin: A Life in Poems