Carl Linnaeus

tree dies plant new

"If a tree dies, plant another in its place."

—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

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"If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too".

—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

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"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)

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"It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit."

—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

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"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)

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"In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation."

—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

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"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 three kingdom mineral plant animal

"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)

genus character

"It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus."

—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

nature proceed leap

"Nature does not proceed by leaps."

—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

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"To live by medicine is to live horribly."

—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

nature economy immutable secondary economist

"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)

thought concerning one thing melancholy begin

"When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins."

—Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)