Trofim Lysenko

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge,…

— Trofim Lysenko

Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.

— Trofim Lysenko

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty.…

— Trofim Lysenko

Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific…

— Trofim Lysenko

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

— Trofim Lysenko

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

— Trofim Lysenko

Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the…

— Trofim Lysenko

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the…

— Trofim Lysenko

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

— Trofim Lysenko

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

— Trofim Lysenko

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary…

— Trofim Lysenko

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of…

— Trofim Lysenko

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective…

— Trofim Lysenko

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches…

— Trofim Lysenko