In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
CARL LINNAEUSNature does not proceed by leaps.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
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Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature’s economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
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