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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

Carl Linnaeus

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
CARL LINNAEUS

Agreement Different Group Natural Science Structure
Botany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUS

Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
CARL LINNAEUS

Flower Plant Science Space
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
CARL LINNAEUS

Beautiful Bird Blessing Song Spring Summer
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
CARL LINNAEUS

Generation King Natural Science
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
CARL LINNAEUS

Natural Observation Science Truth
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUS

Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant Summer
Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
CARL LINNAEUS

Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
CARL LINNAEUS

Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Body Division Feeling Growth Live Natural Nature
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
CARL LINNAEUS

Exercise God Health Live People
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
CARL LINNAEUS

Better Discover Encouragement Profession Space Stars True Work
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
CARL LINNAEUS

Beginning Lose Person Sadness Thinking
No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.
CARL LINNAEUS

Book Doctor Experience Greatness Personal Science Start Writing

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