As a natural historian according to the principles of science, up to the present time I have been not been able to discover any character by which ma… - Carl Linnaeus

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As a natural historian according to the principles of science, up to the present time I have been not been able to discover any character by which man can be distinguished from the ape; for there are somewhere apes which are less hairy than man, erect in position, going just like him on two feet, and recalling the human species by the use they make of their hands and feet, to such an extent, that the less educated travellers have given them out as a kind of man.

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About Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May, 1707– 10 January, 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.

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Native Name: Carolus Linnaeus
Alternative Names: Carl Nilsson Linnæus Carl von Linné Carolus a Linné Carolus Linnæus Linnaeus Linn. Linnæus Carl Linnæus Linné Carl von Linne Carolus a Linne Linne Caroli Linnæi L. Carl von Linnaeus Carolo Linnaeo Carolo Linnæo Karl von Linné Carl Nilsson Linnaeus
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Variant translation: "I saw the infinite, all-knowing and all-powerful God from behind as he went away, and I grew dizzy. I followed his footsteps over nature's fields and saw everywhere an eternal wisdom and power, an inscrutable perfection." (As quoted in History of Science, by Peter Whitfield (2003), Scholastic Library Pub, p. 23.)

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