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Carolus Linnaeus
(23 May 1707 - 10 Jan 1778)
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Carolus Linnaeus Quotes on Classification (4 quotes)
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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.
— Carolus Linnaeus
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.
— Carolus Linnaeus
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.
— Carolus Linnaeus
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.
— Carolus Linnaeus
See also:
- 23 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Linnaeus's birth.
- Carl Linnaeus - from Famous Men of Science (1926)