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.
CARL LINNAEUSA 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.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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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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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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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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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