Carl Linnaeus Quotes

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Your works are wonderful, O Lord! In the multitude of Thy virtues you measure those who despise you.

Carl Linnaeus
Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest careThis is the first and last desideratum among botanists.Nature makes no jumps.[Natura non facit saltus]All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.

Carl Linnaeus
Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical location.

Carl Linnaeus
Theologically, man is to be understood as the final purpose of the creation; placed on the globe as the masterpiece of the works of Omnipotence, contemplating the world by virtue of sapient reason, forming conclusions by means of his senses, it is in His works that man recognizes the almighty Creator, the all-knowing, immeasurable and eternal God, learning to live morally under His rule, convinced of the complete justice of His Nemesis.

Carl Linnaeus
From my youth you have taught me, O God, and now I would like to proclaim Your Wonders

Carl Linnaeus
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

Carl Linnaeus
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Carl Linnaeus
Everything persecutes him; all things go against the guilty. No calamity by itself. Everything went badly with me, when I harboured revenge, but [I] changed, and left everything in God's hands: since then all happily.

Carl Linnaeus
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character—one that is according to generally accepted principles of classification, by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.... But, if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I should have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so.

Carl Linnaeus