Carl Linnaeus Quotes

Botany is based on fixed genera.

Carl Linnaeus

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• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Depression
  • Loneliness

• Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

  

  George Foreman
  • Fighting
  • Sports
  • Hands

• But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Quality
  • Constant
  • Fixed

• I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.

  

  Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
  • Ends
  • Bike
  • Fixed

• Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Universe
  • Scientist
  • Physics

• Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Foundation

• It was predictable, of course, but now that a date had been fixed, March 12th, it was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Date
  • Fixed
  • Banged

• There are no fixed points in space.

  

  Merce Cunningham
  • Space
  • Fixed

• The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Past
  • Philosopher
  • Curious

• Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Opinion
  • Fixed

• When the flower opens, the bees will come.

  

  Kabir
  • Flower
  • Bees

• To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Succeed
  • Suffer
  • I Need

• With success comes a lot of failure, and it doesn't matter how many times you fall it just depends on how you get up and keep succeeding.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Matter

• The things you do today that you don't have to do will determine who, what, and where you will be when it is too late to do anything about the things you should have done.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Today
  • Should
  • Determine

• It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

  

  Ezra Klein
  • Relationship
  • Health care
  • Policies

• I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Control

• The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Mind
  • Feelings
  • Magic

• Botany is based on fixed genera.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Fixed
  • Botany