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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.

Carl Linnaeus

To live by medicine is to live horribly.
CARL LINNAEUS

Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Different Himself Loss Practice
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
CARL LINNAEUS

Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Color Creation Flower God Listening Song Summer Time
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
CARL LINNAEUS

Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
CARL LINNAEUS

Beginning Lose Person Sadness Thinking
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
CARL LINNAEUS

Character Science
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
CARL LINNAEUS

Natural Observation Science Truth
Botany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUS

Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
CARL LINNAEUS

Beautiful Bird Blessing Song Spring Summer
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

Better Discover Encouragement Profession Space Stars True Work
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 LINNAEUS

Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
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.
CARL LINNAEUS

Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
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 LINNAEUS

Economy Knowledge Mathematics Nature

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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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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