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“Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

“Rarely has a man been more comfortable with his own greatness. He spent much of his leisure time penning long and flattering portraits of himself, declaring that there had never ‘been a greater botanist or zoologistâ€�, and that his system of classification was ‘the greatest achievement in the realm of scienceâ€�. Modestly, he suggested that his gravestone should bear the inscription Princeps Botanicorum, ‘Prince of Botanistsâ€�. It was never wise to question his generous self-assessments. Those who did so were apt to find they had weeds named after them.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Linnaeus had it constantly in mind: 'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the chain of nature, and its harmony and system'.”
― Sten Lindroth

“A flower clock?"
"Yeah. Mum was... is a florist, so I'm using her books on flowers to try to re-create or, well, create Carl Linnaeus's flower clock. He was a guy from the eighteenth century. Basically, each flower in the clock opens at a different time of day."
"Its petals open?"
"Yeah, so flowers have circadian rhythms," Ben says. He's blushing. "I don't know. Sounds stupid now I'm saying it. And it hasn't actually worked yet either. I thought, though, that with climate change and everything, the flowers will start opening at weird times, so it kind of goes beyond everything with, you know... my mum. It'll be, like, the more we damage the world, the more we damage the clock, and time, and, yeah, the future."
"That sounds beautiful, Ben," I say.
"Yeah, I don't know. I mean, what am I going to do with it? What's the point of it, really? Will it go in a gallery and then be, like, sold as prints of photographs of it or something? And then the time element of it will be gone."
"Hmm."
"Sorry," Ben says, and he shakes his head. "I guess I'm in a bit of a crap mood." He looks at me sideways, and nervously laughs to himself. "I mean, I don't know why I just told you all that."
I shake my head. "It's fine. So, what flower's time is it now?" I ask.
Ben looks at his phone. "Ugh, yeah, so that's the other thing. There actually doesn't seem to be a flower for each hour, which is kind of problematic. But the closest to now is the meadow goat's beard. It opens at three."
"Oh, cool," I say. "So right now doesn't exist in flower time?"
"Yeah, I guess it doesn't. I've never thought of it like that.”
― Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

“Deus creavit, Linnaeus disposuitâ€� (God created, Linnaeus organized)”
― Carl Linnaeus

“The other races, save Latinx and Middle Easterners, had been completely made and distinguished by the Age of Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. Beginning in 1735, Carl Linnaeus locked in the racial hierarchy of humankind in Systema Naturae. He color-coded the races as White, Yellow, Red, and Black. He attached each race to one of the four regions of the world and described their characteristics. The Linnaeus taxonomy became the blueprint that nearly every enlightened race maker followed and that race makers still follow today. And, of course, these were not simply neutral categories, because races were never meant to be neutral categories. Racist power created them for a purpose.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Linnaeus's remains constitute the type specimen for the species Homo sapiens following the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, since the sole specimen that he is known to have examined was himself.”
― Anonymous