Carl Linnaeus — "I have created order out of chaos."

"The African is lazy, crafty, negligent, and governed by caprice."

"I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none. But perhaps I should still do it acc…"

"I was born to be a botanist, and I have never regretted my choice."

"Natura non facit saltus. (Nature makes no leaps.)"

"Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics."