Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown…

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man…

— Carl Linnaeus

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects;…

— Carl Linnaeus

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds…

— Carl Linnaeus

Botany is based on fixed genera.

— Carl Linnaeus

All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always…

— Carl Linnaeus

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man…

— Carl Linnaeus

“¿Qué tiene de extraño que yo no vea a Dios si no puedo ver siquiera al Yo que vive en mí?”

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of…

— Carl Linnaeus

This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical…

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps…

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among…

— Carl Linnaeus

No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience.…

— Carl Linnaeus