Botany Quote by Carl Linnaeus Download Open image “Botany is based on fixed genera.” — Carl Linnaeus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Botany Fixed Inspirational Love
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's… — Douglas Houghton Campbell Copy Share Image
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under… — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.” — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is,… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape.… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“Every plant is an individual. Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study… — Joseph Dalton Hooker Copy Share Image
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which… — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what… — John Muir Copy Share Image
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image