Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developeda spineless cactusand the plumcot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 March 1849
CountryUnited States of America
law judging environmental
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
heredity-and-environment ancestry ancestor
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
nature environmental return
We must return to nature and nature's god.
common-sense perfect feelings
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for their prophets, there are as many today as ever before, only now science refuses to let them overstep the bounds of common sense.
good-life believe ideas
A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.
boys promise use
Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.
everyday each-day misery
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.
ideas people perfect
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.
teacher men atheism
The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.
law facts laws-of-nature
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
law justice unity
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
insanity theology
Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.
country men thinking
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.
weed children parenting
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.