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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character—one that is according to generally accepted principles of classificatio… - Carl Linnaeus
" "I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character—one that is according to generally accepted principles of classification, by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. ...But, if I had called man an ape, or vice versa, I should have fallen under the ban of all the ecclesiastics. It may be that as a naturalist I ought to have done so.
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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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Carolus Linnaeus
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Carl Nilsson Linnæus
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Carl von Linné
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Carolus Linnæus
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Linnaeus
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Carl Linnæus
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Linné
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Carl von Linne
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Carolus a Linne
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Caroli Linnæi
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Carl von Linnaeus
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Carolo Linnaeo
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Carolo Linnæo
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Karl von Linné
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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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