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Carolus Linnaeus
(23 May 1707 - 10 Jan 1778)
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Carolus Linnaeus Quotes on Genus (6 quotes)
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
— 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 species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
— Carolus Linnaeus
The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.
— Carolus Linnaeus
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
— Carolus Linnaeus
Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science.
— 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)