Classifying Them Quotes by Carl Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
• In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
• Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps…
• I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man…
• Botany is based on fixed genera.
• Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown…
• Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of…
• Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

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