Carl Linnaeus

Citations

• “Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical location.”

• “If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.”

• “God infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, woke me up and I was amazed! I have read some clues through His created things, in all of which, is His will; even in the smallest things, and the most minute! How much wisdom! What an inscrutable perfection!”

• “Every genus is natural, created as such in the beginning, hence not to be rashly split up or stuck together by whim or according to anyone's theory.”

• “The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God."”