"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…"

"Carl Linnaeus... was not at all troubled by the idea that there were half-human/half-ape creatures... (he called them…"

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

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

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

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

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

"I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character—one that is according to generally acce…"

"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…"