Nature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUSIn natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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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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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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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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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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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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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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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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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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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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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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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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