Best Quotes by Luther Burbank (Top 10)
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
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Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
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Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
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Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.
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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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The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
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It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.
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Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.
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More Luther Burbank Quotes
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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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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.
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A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.
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The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
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A flower is an educated weed.
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Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet. Rear them, if possible, amid pleasant surroundings ... Let nature teach them the lessons of good and proper living, combined with an abundance of well-balanced nourishment. Those children will grow to be the best men and women. Put the best in them by contact with the best outside. They will absorb it as a plant absorbs the sunshine and the dew.
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