Ocupation: Astronomer
Life: January 3, 1906 - June 21, 1994
Birthday: January 3
Death: June 21
Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.
source: Interview with David DeVorkin, www.aip.org. August 8, 1978.
topic: People, Dumb, Phenomenology