Luther Burbank

Horticulturist

Luther Burbank was an influential American botanist known for developing new plant varieties, including the Burbank potato, which transformed agriculture.

Born
March 7, 1849
Died
February 11, 1926
Quotes
66
Rank
#6071

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

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"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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"Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe."

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

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"Plants are as responsive to thought as children."

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