Trofim Lysenko quotes

Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist and biologist, known for his rejection of genetics in favor of his own theories called "Lysenkoism." His influence shaped Soviet agricultural policies and led to the suppression of genetic science in the USSR. He became a controversial figure, associated with scientific repression and agricultural failures. Here are 7 of his quotes:

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

Trofim Lysenko

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Trofim Lysenko