"If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you."
George Washington Carver
Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist known for his work in crop rotation and sustainable farming, significantly impacting American agriculture.
- Born
- January 1, 1864
- Died
- January 5, 1943
- Quotes
- 76
- Rank
- #5725
Quote collection
George Washington Carver quotes (page 4 of 4)
76 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out."
"I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . ."
"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough."
"More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us."
"He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest."
"God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?"
"Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them."
"A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist."
"Education is understanding relationships."
"I think I'll sleep now."
"There is no shortcut to achievement."
"Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . ."
"If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you."
"There is a use for almost everything."
"The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist."