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 LINNAEUSA herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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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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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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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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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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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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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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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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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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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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