Pedigree may refer to:
- Pedigree chart, a document to record ancestry, used by genealogists in study of human family lines, and in selective breeding of animals
- Pedigree (animal), a purebred animal
- Pedigree (dog), a purebred dog
- Pedigree (cat), a show cat
- Pedigree (law), the legal principle that allows a witness to testify as to his name and certain family details with no additional foundation
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Famous quotes containing the word pedigree:
“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attaineda knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”
—Chauncey Wright (18301875)
“The pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee,”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
“The Pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee
A Clover, any time, to him,
Is Aristocracy”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)