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Luther Burbank was a 19th-century American botanist and horticulturist. Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”
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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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“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 sci...”
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“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 resurrec...”
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“Most peoples religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.”
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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...”
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