Almighty Quote by Carl Linnaeus

Botany is based on fixed genera.

— 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,…

— Carl Linnaeus

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

— Charles Darwin

“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgment of which…

— Charles Darwin

In general, the more one augments the number of divisions of the productions of nature, the more one approaches the truth, since in nature…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction without a…

— Michael Pollan

At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it…

— Charles Darwin

“As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure,…

— Charles Darwin

“I hope you will understand it! Linnaeus says the plants get married and make new plant families, and then those families intermarry and create…

— Maryrose Wood

“Natural beauty, for Darwin, was not just aesthetic; it always reflected function and adaptation at work. Orchids were not just ornamental, to be displayed…

— Oliver Sacks

“In the classic successional course, each suite of plants replaces its predecessor, until the arrival of the final, “climax” ecosystem, usually tall forest.”

— Charles C. Mann