Trofim Lysenko quotes

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)
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. View quote
Trofim Lysenko
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. View quote
Trofim Lysenko
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. View quote
Trofim Lysenko
Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. View quote
Trofim Lysenko
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. View quote
Trofim Lysenko
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. View quote
Trofim Lysenko