Carl Linnaeus Quote

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.


Philosophia Botanica (1751), aphorism 77. Trans. Frans A. Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans: The Spreading of their Ideas in Systematic Botany, 1735–1789 (1971)


Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest careThis is the first and last desideratum among botanists.Nature makes no...

Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest careThis is the first and last desideratum among botanists.Nature makes no...

Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest careThis is the first and last desideratum among botanists.Nature makes no...

Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest careThis is the first and last desideratum among botanists.Nature makes no...