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Quote by Luther Burbank

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

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This book explores the complexities of belief, examining the origins, evolution, and impact of various belief systems on individuals and societies. It delves into the personal and collective aspects of belief, offering a nuanced perspective on the role of faith, ideology, and conviction in shaping human experience. more

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Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank, an American botanist known as the 'Edison of Botany', dedicated his life to plant breeding. Through continuous experimentation, he developed hundreds of new plant varieties, profoundly impacting horticulture and agriculture. more

“Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.”

States Body Science Process Nature Greater Higher Equal Heat Probability Distribution Temperature

Book:Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909

Source: Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909

“Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!”

Firsts Seems Might Law Science House Nature Natural Conditions Scene Universal Injustice Slaughter

Book:Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough

Source: Phytologia; Or, The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening: With the Theory of Draining Morasses, and with an Improved Construction of the Drill Plough

“The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.”