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Category: Luther Burbank

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Love, Gardening, Plant

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

Flowers, Sunshine, Gardening

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Nature, Knowledge, Truth

If you violate Nature’s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Judge, You, Laws

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Children, Plants, Living

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction then … life is on the road toward misfortune misery and destruction.

Flowers always make people better happier and more helpful they are sunshine food and medicine to the soul.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

helping, people

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don’t want to have anything to do with such a God.

evil, god, good, hell, inspired, perfect, religion, science, scientist

And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.

america, babylonian, bible, biblical-literalism, close-minded, country, creationism, culture, evolution, failure, genesis, ignorant, legends, myths, science, the-bible

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

love, lover, science, scientist, truth