The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“ Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
As a scientist I cannot help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired. As for… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . . — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or later become… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
