Luther Burbank Quotes

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

Luther Burbank
Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

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

Luther Burbank
Life is self-expression, intricate organized polarity. The lure of happiness and the fear of pain are fundamental qualities possessed by all living things and are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.

Luther Burbank
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

Luther Burbank
I took off more than one hundred years from its usual period of growth. I grew that in twelve years.

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

Luther Burbank
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more hopeful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.

Luther Burbank
Science, which has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe, has replaced darkness, ignorance, bigotry and superstition with light, truth and freedom from fear.

Luther Burbank
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

Luther Burbank
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

Luther Burbank
The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.

Luther Burbank
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?

Luther Burbank
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

Luther Burbank