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 LINNAEUSThis 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.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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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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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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As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.
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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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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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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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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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.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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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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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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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