Luther Burbank Quotes

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

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.

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 greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

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.

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

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

A flower is an educated weed.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

Science is the only savior.

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

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

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

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

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

The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.

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

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

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.

I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.

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

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.

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

The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.

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

Plants are as responsive to thought as children.

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

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.

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

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.