Luther Burbank
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"Luther Burbank"[http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/21.html Invent Now / Hall of Fame / Search / Inventor Profile] was an American botany/botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science.

He developed more than 800 Strain (biology)/strains and Variety (biology)/varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed a spineless cactus (useful for cattle-feed) and the plumcot.

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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.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a God.

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

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

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while.