"Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature."

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Source : Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

Trofim Lysenko

#Practice Quotes #Agriculture Quotes #World Quotes

“The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.”
“I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.”
“Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something”
“Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.”
“Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.”
“I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'”
“It is better to own 10% of an elephant than 100% of a rat.”
“Thank you for bringing me home.”

Source : "Fictional character: Silvia Broome". "The Interpreter", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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