Luther Burbank

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.

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

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.

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.

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

Most people__ religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.

I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. 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.

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

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.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.