Different Quote by Carl Linnaeus

Botany is based on fixed genera.

— Carl Linnaeus

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

— Carl Linnaeus

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

— Levi Strauss

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World…

— Thomas Lovejoy

The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

— Charles Darwin

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

— Thomas Lovejoy

“Species that evolved from a common ancestor are bunched together under the heading ‘genus’ (plural genera).”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record…

— Anonymous

Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once…

— Asa Gray

“El revoltijo de rostros genera una paella de sensaciones nauseabundas”

— Álex de la Iglesia

Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

— George Gaylord Simpson

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