“Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.”— Mary Douglas
“The intellectual power of man is not a-wandering thing, but has a fixed law and order of its own.”— George Boole
“Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty, and perfection.”— Hermann Weyl
“To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means opposing disorder and accident.”— Josef Albers
“Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is a means of rendering understandable the environment and the self.”— Rudolf Arnheim
“Any classification is a violation of the richness of the material, but without it we cannot see the woods for the trees.”— Marston Bates
“This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast—man's laws, not God's—and if you cut them down... d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”— Robert Bolt
“It is a singular fact that of all the innumerable host of stars which have been observed and catalogued, not one has ever been known to quit its appointed place.”— George Phillips Bond
“I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.”— Adolf Eichmann
“The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is not a mere jumble of accidents, but an orderly cosmos.”— Edward Forbes
“There's something about the crisp logical clarity of lists that's just very reassuring.”— Ken Jennings
“The very beginnings of science are to be found in the recognition that there is a definite, ascertainable order in the universe, of which we are a part.”— Lord Kelvin