Carl Linnaeus Short Quotes

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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carl Linnaeus
The stony rocks are not primeval, but daughters of Time.

Carl Linnaeus
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

Carl Linnaeus
Great is our God, and great is His power, and his strength is immeasurable

Carl Linnaeus
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.

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

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

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

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The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God."

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

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The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

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We say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species.

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

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

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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.

Carl Linnaeus
Every genus is natural, created as such in the beginning, hence not to be rashly split up or stuck together by whim or according to anyone's theory.

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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.

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By a botanist I mean one who understands how to observe the genera of Nature. I judge unworthy of the name of botanist the meddlesome person who is indifferent to genera.

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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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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