"Never was my late father an atheist; no, the reverse; he could never endure to hear people talking in this way; ; his…"

"Today I have been reading Linné again and am quite unnerved by this extraordinary man. I have learned an infinite amo…"

"Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical l…"

"The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God.""

"We say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species."

"The principle being accepted that all Species of one Genus have arisen from one mother through different fathers, it …"

"No one has any right to be angry with me, if I think fit to enumerate man among the quadrapeds. Man is neither a ston…"

"We imagine that the Creator at the actual time of creation made only one single species for each natural order of pla…"

"As a natural historian according to the principles of science, up to the present time I have been not been able to di…"

"If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes."