Trofim Lysenko Quotes


The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors. - Trofim Lysenko



Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology. - Trofim Lysenko



In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. - Trofim Lysenko



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



Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology. - Trofim Lysenko