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

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  Struggle, Race, Atheism

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• 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.

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  Ignorance, Eye, Light

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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

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  Children, Parent, Heredity

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• The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man. . .

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  Brother, Nature, Philosophy

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

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  Teacher, Men, Atheism

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

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  Atheism, Positive Atheism, Infidel

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

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  Believe, People, Want

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• Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no question whatever that cigarettes alone were the cause of their destruction. No boy living would commence the use of cigarettes if he knew what a useless, soulless, worthless thing they would make of him.

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  Knowledge, Science, Boys

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

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  Light, Saving, Found

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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

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  Law, Facts, Laws Of Nature

  1926 Interview in the San Francisco Bulletin, 22 Jan.

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• Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

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  Fighting, Blow, College

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• We must return to nature and nature's god.

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  Nature, Environmental, Return

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• Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we know as Life and of all the ordinances which govern that universe and that make Life continuous. She is no more the Hebrew's Jehovah than she is the Physicist's Force; she is as much Providence as she is Electricity; she is not the Great Pattern any more than she is the Blind Chance.

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  Moving, Atheism, Patterns

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• 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.

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  Religious, Mean, Men

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• In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

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  Children, Simple, Healthy

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• Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or later become petrified forms instead of living helps to mankind. Until that time comes, however, if religion of any name or nature makes man more happy, comfortable, and able to live peaceably with his brothers, it is good.

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  Brother, Men, Past

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

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  Children, Giving, Dogmatic

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.28, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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

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  Law, Justice, Unity

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

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  Love, Truth, Science

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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• 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.

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  Everyday, Each Day, Misery

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• A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.

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  Good Life, Believe, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Ideas, People, Perfect

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• Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.

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  Together, Way, Spirituality

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• All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.

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  Mother, Nature, Light

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• 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.

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  Believe, Resurrection, Immortality

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