Trofim Lysenko Quotes

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

Agriculture, confessedly the largest interest in the nation, has not a department or a bureau, but a clerkship only, assigned to it in the government.... I venture the opinion that an agricultural and statistical bureau might profitably be organized.

Agricultural chemistry was not something that could be readily mastered by farmers, nor could the new machines be easily operated and maintained. Agricultural schools were needed to provide the necessary training. Then, if local gentry and rich households with large landholdings tried new methods—and if the new techniques were effective—the people will naturally follow them.

In the Department of Agriculture, the use of scientific experiments on a large scale and the spread of information derived from them for the improvement of general agriculture must go on.

Farmer! Yesterday you could only work the land. Today, under the republic you can become an agricultural engineer!

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Concentrate our strength in agriculture and increase our potential.

I worked on a farm for a little bit.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.