Carl Linnaeus Professions : Botanist Born : May 23, 1707 Died : January 10, 1778 Browse All Authors Top 34 quotes by Carl Linnaeus If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too. Carl Linnaeus names knows lost If a tree dies, plant another in its place. Carl Linnaeus nature motivational death The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science. Carl Linnaeus names science ideas It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit. Carl Linnaeus fit live-by people In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. Carl Linnaeus principles truth science Nature does not proceed by leaps. Carl Linnaeus spirituality spiritual doe The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer. Carl Linnaeus delight offering summer Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds. Carl Linnaeus summer spring song As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator. Carl Linnaeus color flower song 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. Carl Linnaeus character men world No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch. Carl Linnaeus zoologist changed book Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel. Carl Linnaeus animal life science A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. Carl Linnaeus stars clever education Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name. Carl Linnaeus names science knowledge Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics. Carl Linnaeus economy science knowledge Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science. Carl Linnaeus animal men science It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus. Carl Linnaeus giving character Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling. Carl Linnaeus nature animal science Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Carl Linnaeus relationship country world This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin. Carl Linnaeus drink tired return Similar Authors Asa Gray botanist Albert Howard botanist Douglas Houghton Campbell botanist Donald C. Peattie botanist David Fairchild botanist David Douglas botanist All Authors
