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 More Quotes by Carl Linnaeus More Quotes From Carl Linnaeus We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure. Carl Linnaeus groups different science Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it. Carl Linnaeus lapland plant space 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 vanity animal science 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 air clouds animal 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 different law science 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. Carl Linnaeus nature science art A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. Carl Linnaeus different loss firsts A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one. Carl Linnaeus illustration should 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 Botany is based on fixed genera. Carl Linnaeus botany fixed When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. Carl Linnaeus melancholy interest persons 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 generations eggs kingdoms The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera. Carl Linnaeus plant names science
