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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.

Carl Linnaeus

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

Creation Illustration Nature Oneself Plant
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
CARL LINNAEUS

Natural Observation Science Truth
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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Art Class Creation Nature Order Work
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
CARL LINNAEUS

Delight Earth Greatness Happiness King Offering Plant Summer
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
CARL LINNAEUS

Flower Plant Science Space
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
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
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
Botany is based on fixed genera.
CARL LINNAEUS

Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
CARL LINNAEUS

Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
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
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
CARL LINNAEUS

Nature One Liner Progress
This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.
CARL LINNAEUS

Activity Drink Magic Power Return Strength Tired Weakness Work
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
CARL LINNAEUS

Agreement Different Group Natural Science Structure
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
CARL LINNAEUS

Exercise God Health Live People
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

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