When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
CARL LINNAEUSBlessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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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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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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.
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There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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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.
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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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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