Top 50 Luther Burbank Quotes

#1. Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.

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#2. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

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#5. Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

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#6. Science is the only savior.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

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

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

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#11. Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.

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#12. The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

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#13. The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

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#14. The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man ...

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#15. 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.

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#16. It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.

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#17. Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

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#18. Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check
agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

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#19. What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

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#20. Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

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#21. I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

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#22. The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.

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#23. Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason ...

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

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#25. I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

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#26. If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.

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#27. The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. The lure of happiness and the fear of pain ... 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.

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#31. Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

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#32. I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

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#33. Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.

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#34. I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

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#35. Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

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#36. All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

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#37. Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

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#38. Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

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

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#40. Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

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#41. Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

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#42. Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

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#43. In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

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#44. Plants are as responsive to thought as children.

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#45. 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.

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#46. Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.

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#47. A flower is an educated weed.

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

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#49. Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

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#50. Science ... has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

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