“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.” LoveNeedsSecretProtectPlantExperimentsVarietyDesertThornsBreedingProtect YouConductingScientific KnowledgeCactusSpineless Author:Luther Burbank
“In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.” ReasonCausesCommonSecretOpinionDiscoveryArgumentStrongerPhilosophicalExperimentsInvestigationConjectureSpeculators Author:W. S. Gilbert
“To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.” WorldSecretThis WorldInstrumentsExperimentsClumsyCausality Author:Banesh Hoffmann
“The secret is to remain true to your aesthetic vision, so that people can see that you really believe passionately in what you are doing. That way, they can relate to your style. At the same time, you experiment-you try new things.” PeopleWayTryingBelieveSecretVisionStyleExperimentsRelateAestheticNew Things Author:Giorgio Armani
“I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.” WritingMadeI CanGamesStuffReligiousAnswersSecretIndiaExperimentsExpensesReservedTurmoilSuggestingFadsSatyagraha Book:Hind Swaraj Source: Hind Swaraj