"Women are by nature hysteria-prone because their wombs wander like restless animals inside them."

"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 …"

"I am not ashamed to confess that I am a man who loves flowers."

"The study of nature will reveal the divine order of creation."

"I saw the infinite, all-knowing and all-powerful God from behind as he went away, and I grew dizzy. I followed his footsteps over nature's fields and saw everywhere an eternal wisdom and power, an ins…"