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 LINNAEUSFragments 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.
More Carl Linnaeus Quotes
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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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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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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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Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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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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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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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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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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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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A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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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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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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