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 LINNAEUSIf you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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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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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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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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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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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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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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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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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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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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