Carl Linnaeus - Philosophia Botanica

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

Carl Linnaeus
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made...If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes...For a single genus, a single name.

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

Carl Linnaeus
There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.

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

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

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