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"Roger Bacon had shown how easy it is, and how vain, to survey the operations of Nature and idly refer her wondrous works to chance or accident, or to the immediate interposition of God." – D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, "On Growth and Form" (1917).
"Biological classifications have two major objectives: to serve as a basis of biological generalizations in all sort of comparative studies and to serve as a key to an information storage system... Is the classification that is soundest as a basis of generalizations also most convenient for information retrieval? This, indeed, seems to have been true in most cases I have encountered." – Ernst Mayr (1981) as cited in: C. Gnoli (2011) "Ontological…
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