"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."
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William Wilson Morgan in: Oral History Transcript — Dr. William Wilson Morgan, The Niels Bohr Library & Archives
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