Quotes from Luther Burbank

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

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.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Flowers always make people better happier and more helpful they are sunshine food and medicine to the soul.

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

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

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

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

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.

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

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

Science is the only savior.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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