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

— Luther Burbank

I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers, trees, animals, and all the works of Nature as they pass before us in time and space. What a joy life is when you have made a close working partnership with Nature, helping her to produce for the benefit of mankind new forms, colors, and perfumes in flowers which were never known before; fruits in form, size, and flavor never before seen on this globe; and grains of enormously increased productiveness, whose fat kernels are filled with more and better nourishment, a veritable storehouse of perfect food—new food for all the world's untold millions for all time to come.

— Luther Burbank

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

— Luther Burbank

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 at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

— Luther Burbank

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

— Luther Burbank

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

— Luther Burbank

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.

— Luther Burbank

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

— Luther Burbank

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

— Luther Burbank

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.

— Luther Burbank