Carl Linnaeus - Works 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

The Earth's Creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone.

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

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Carl Linnaeus

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.

Carl Linnaeus