In these days when Molecular Biology is beginning to be seen as a restricted science, narrowing our vision by concentrating on the basic uniformity of organisms at the macromolecular level, the need for taxonomists to draw attention to the enormous diversity and variation of this earth's biota becomes more and more pressing.
In: Tod. F. Stuessy, Plant Taxonomy: The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative Data, Plant Taxonomy (p. xvii)