It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

- Carl Linnaeus

There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

- Carl 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 …

- Carl Linnaeus

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

- Carl 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 k…

- Carl Linnaeus

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

- Carl Linnaeus

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amo…

- Carl Linnaeus

As one sits here in summertime and listens to the cuckoo and all the other bird songs, the crackling and buzzing of insects, as one gazes at the shin…

- Carl Linnaeus

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

- Carl Linnaeus