Carl Linnaeus Quotes

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• If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Names, Lost, Knows

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• The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Names, Ideas

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

  Carl Linnaeus

  Truth, Science, Principles

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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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• Nature does not proceed by leaps.

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  Spiritual, Doe, Spirituality

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• It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

  Carl Linnaeus

  People, Fit, Live By

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• The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Summer, Offering, Delight

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• As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Song, Flower, Color

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• It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Character, Giving

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• Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Life, Science, Animal

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

  Carl Linnaeus

  Education, Stars, Clever

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• Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Summer, Song, Spring

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• I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Character, Men, World

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• 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

  Knowledge, Science, Names

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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

  Knowledge, Science, Economy

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• Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Animal, Men

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• A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Loss, Different, Firsts

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• When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Melancholy, Interest, Persons

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• No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.

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  Book, Zoologist, Changed

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• Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

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  Nature, Science, Animal

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• To live by medicine is to live horribly.

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  Medicine, Medical, Live By

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

  Carl Linnaeus

  Illustration, Should

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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.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Art, Nature, Science

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• This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Tired, Return, Drink

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• Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Space, Lapland, Plant

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