Carolus Linnaeus

“The first step of science is to know one thing from another.”

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

“Botany is based on fixed principles.”

“A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe.”

“There are as many species as the Infinite Being created diverse forms in the beginning.”

“Natura non facit saltus. (Nature does not make jumps.)”

“One should not aim at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.”

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

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

“The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety is most often the work of the garden.”

“Stones grow, plants grow and live, animals grow, live and feel.”