Correction - RE: [TAXACOM] An old Chinese proverb => its source?

[Adolf Ceska]

Bill Gates always has to have the last word:

The Latin sentence should read:
Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum.

Adolf

>
> I don't think Linnaeus was Chinese, but he said something similar:
>
> Nomina si nescis, perit et cognition rerum.
> ["Who knoweth not the names, knoweth not the subject."]
> If you don't know the names, your knowledge of the things perishes.
> Linnaeus, Critica Botanica No. 210, 1737