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
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
![Carl Linnaeus Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/the-species-and-the-genus-are-always-the-work-of-n-683x1024.jpg)
