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Bryologist Inspirational Quotes (88)

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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 shining colors of flowers, doth one become dumbstruck before the Kingdom of the Creator.
Carl Linnaeus
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
John Ray
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Spend and be free, but make no waste.
John Ray
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A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
John Ray
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Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray
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There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.
Carl Linnaeus
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Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
Carl Linnaeus
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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
John Ray
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There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.
Carl Linnaeus
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Nature does not proceed by leaps.
Carl Linnaeus
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All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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After a Christmas comes a Lent.
John Ray
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The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
John Ray
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Botany is based on fixed genera.
Carl Linnaeus
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
John Ray
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In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.
John Ray
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. [Natura non facit saltus] All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
Carl Linnaeus
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
John Ray
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A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
John Ray
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On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.
Ferdinand von Mueller
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In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
John Ray
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It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
Carl Linnaeus
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He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
John Ray
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