{"author":"Luther Burbank","author_id":"Luther+Burbank","total_quotes":30,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["choice","creed","future","integrity","mind","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion","value"],"id":28447,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["love","gardening","plant "],"id":56647,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["belief","wishful-thinking"],"id":76859,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"Science . . . Has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["darkness","fear","freedom","ignorance","light","salvation","science","superstition","truth","universe","vastness"],"id":77463,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["helping","people"],"id":78635,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"Heredity is nothing but stored environment.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["heredity"],"id":80604,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check--agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["anthropomorphism","charlatans","god","man-made","medieval","mythical","religion","religious","science","self-deceit","truth"],"id":84919,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers, trees, animals, and all the works of Nature as they pass before us in time and space. What a joy life is when you have made a close working partnership with Nature, helping her to produce for the benefit of mankind new forms, colors, and perfumes in flowers which were never known before; fruits in form, size, and flavor never before seen on this globe; and grains of enormously increased productiveness, whose fat kernels are filled with more and better nourishment, a veritable storehouse of perfect food—new food for all the world's untold millions for all time to come.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["animals","benefit","delight","flowers","humanity","love","mankind","nature","science","space"],"id":91386,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["america","babylonian","bible","biblical-literalism","close-minded","country","creationism","culture","evolution","failure","genesis","ignorant","legends","myths","science","the-bible"],"id":108544,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["love","lover","science","scientist","truth"],"id":116249,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}