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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

Carl Linnaeus

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
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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Agreement Different Group Natural Science Structure
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Death Nature One Liner Place Tree
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
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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Better Discover Encouragement Profession Space Stars True Work
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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Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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Flower Plant Science Space
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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Exercise God Health Live People
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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Generation King Natural Science
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Animal Feeling Growth Live Plant Stone
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Natural Observation Science Truth
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Character Science
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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Beginning Lose Person Sadness Thinking
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
CARL LINNAEUS

Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant

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