Carl Linnaeus Quotes - Page 2

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• There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Law, Different

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• Botany is based on fixed genera.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Fixed, Botany

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• 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 exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Sports, Science, Hands

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• Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists.
  Nature makes no jumps.
  [Natura non facit saltus]
  All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Relationship, Country, World

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• We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Groups, Different

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• Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Animal, Vanity

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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 like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Animal, Clouds, Air

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• There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Eggs, Kingdoms, Generations

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

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Names, Plant

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