Carl Linnaeus Quotes

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

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

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

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

 "The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer." ~ Carl Linnaeus

 "Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel." ~ Carl Linnaeus

 "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

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

 "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

 "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

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

 "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

 "To live by medicine is to live horribly." ~ Carl Linnaeus

 "A herbarium is better than any illustration; every botanist should make one." ~ Carl Linnaeus

 "Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it." ~ 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

 "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

 "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