"If a tree dies, plant another in its place."
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
"If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too".
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
"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 (1707-1778)
"It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit."
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
"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 (1707-1778)
"In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation."
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
"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 (1707-1778)
"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 (1707-1778)
"It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus."
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
"Nature does not proceed by leaps."
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
"To live by medicine is to live horribly."
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
"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 (1707-1778)
"When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins."
—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)