The classification of plants is the most difficult of all tasks.
Biological taxonomy
The classification of plants is the most difficult of all tasks.
Biological taxonomy
A statement acknowledging the immense challenge of plant taxonomy.
c. 1730s-1770s
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"God created, Linnaeus organized."
Strange & Unusual"God's wisdom is as infinite as His power."
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Shocking"A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discoverers are among them, as comets amongst the stars."
Philosophical"The calyx is the marriage bed, the corolla the bed-curtains, the filaments the spermatic vessels, the anthers the testes, the pollen the semen, the pistil the vagina, the ovary the uterus, the ovules …"
Shocking