"I demand of you, and of the whole……" — Carl Linnaeus
"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."
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26 Quotes by Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus has 26 quotes on this site.
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
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In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by…
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the 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…
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Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow…
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As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and…
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There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and…
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like…
— William Shakespeare
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the…
— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he…
— William Ralph Inge
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A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and…
— Adolf Hitler
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is…
— Adolf Hitler
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