Quotes About Linnaeus

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

I hope you will understand it! Linnaeus says the plants get married and make new plant families, and then those families intermarry and create the species, and then the species intermarry and produce the varieties. You can see why Father would object." "I suppose," says Weed. "But at least they were all legally wed.