25 Quotes by Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist and zoologist, is hailed as the father of modern taxonomy and systematics. His groundbreaking work in the 18th century laid the foundation for the classification and organization of the natural world. Linnaeus introduced a binomial nomenclature system, where each species is identified by a unique two-part Latin name, still widely used in scientific literature today.
His contributions revolutionized the way scientists approach the study of plants and animals, bringing order and clarity to a previously chaotic field. Linnaeus's passion for exploration and meticulous observations led to the discovery of new species and expanded our understanding of the vast diversity of life on Earth. His legacy endures through his enduring classification system, which continues to be the backbone of biological taxonomy, and his enduring impact on the field of biology.
Carolus Linnaeus Quotes
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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.
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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.
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.
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.
Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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.
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.
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.
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdoms of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
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.
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
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.
A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one.
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.
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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.
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
― Carolus Linnaeus Quotes
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