Nature has been kind to me, and I have repaid her by being her faithful interpreter.
Biological taxonomy
A personal reflection on his life's work and his role as a scientist.
c. 1770s
Found in 1 providers: gemini
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Shocking"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 a…"
Philosophical"The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art."
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Shocking