"The greatest pleasure of a naturalist is to make new discoveries."

"The stinking corpse flower smells like a rotting corpse to attract carrion beetles and flesh flies, which are its pollinators. Nature is both beautiful and repulsive."

"Every genus is natural, created as such in the beginning, hence not to be rashly split up or stuck together by whim or according to anyone's theory."

"Without names, knowledge is lost."

"Nature does not make any leaps. (Natura non facit saltus)"