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Your works are wonderful, O Lord! In the multitude of Thy virtues you measure those who despise you.

— Carl Linnaeus Praise at the end of the introduction. In Systema Naturae (1758)

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Original in Latin: "Terribilia sunt opera Tua, o Domine! In multitude virtutis Tuae, Te metientur contemptores Tui."

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

I admire the wisdom of the Creator, which manifests itself in so many various modes, and demonstrate it to others.

The Earth's Creation is the glory of God, as seen from the works of Nature by Man alone.

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

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

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