"The species and the genus are always the……" — Carl Linnaeus
"The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art."
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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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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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