Lysenko's Quotes

#1. Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.

Martin Gardner

#2. And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Trofim Lysenko

#3. If you let fear start driving some of your decisions, sooner or later, it will drive them all.

Jim Butcher

#4. Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Trofim Lysenko

#5. Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.

Trofim Lysenko

#6. Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

FKA Twigs

#7. All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better.

Selena Gomez

#8. The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Trofim Lysenko

#9. Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.

Deborah Harkness

#10. Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

Trofim Lysenko

#11. People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they're doing very well and to keep it up. I learned to say, "You didn't die when you were supposed to so what's going on?", and they always had a story to tell me.

Bernie Siegel

#12. Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Trofim Lysenko

#13. A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Trofim Lysenko

#14. Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.

Trofim Lysenko

#15. A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

Trofim Lysenko

#16. Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

Trofim Lysenko

#17. Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Trofim Lysenko

#18. Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.

Trofim Lysenko

#19. In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

Trofim Lysenko

#20. A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.

Philip Yancey

#21. My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

Trofim Lysenko

#23. Somewhere between what the lens depicts and what the caption interprets, a mental picture intervenes, a cultural ideology defining what and how to see, what to recognize as significant.

Alan Trachtenberg