Trofim Lysenko > Quotes

“The real purpose of studying heredity is to determine the relation of an organism of a given nature to its environmental conditions.”
― Trofim Lysenko, Heredity and Its Variability

“Organisms which cannot change in accordance with the changed conditions of life do not survive, leave no progeny.”
― Trofim Lysenko, The Situation in Biological Science,

“Every living body builds itself out of nonliving material, in other words, out of food, out of the environmental conditions.”
― Trofim Lysenko, Heredity and Its Variability

“Michurin's teaching, creative Darwinism, does not regard development as continuous evolution but as the genesis of a new quality within the old, of a quality that contradicts the old, which undergoes a gradual quantitative accumulation of its peculiar features and in the process of its struggle against the old quality constitutes itself into a new, fundamentally different totality of properties with its own distinct law of existence.”
― Trofim Lysenko, New Developments in the Science of Biological Species

“parallel with similarity between species there always exists specific distinctness, which divides organic nature into qualitatively distinguishable yet interlocking links, or species.”
― Trofim Lysenko, New Developments in the Science of Biological Species

“Heredity is the effect of the concentration of the action of environmental conditions assimilated by the organism in a series of preceding generations.”
― Trofim Lysenko, The Situation in Biological Science,

“bourgeois scientists found it necessary to invent the intraspecific struggle. They say that a fierce struggle for food, of which there is an insufficiency, goes on in nature, within the species, among its individual members – a struggle for the conditions of life. The stronger, fitter individuals win. The same thing, they aver, goes on among human beings: the capitalists, you see, are brainier, are more capable by nature and heredity. We Soviet people know full well that the oppression of the working people, the domination of the capitalist class and imperialist war have nothing in common with the laws of biology. These phenomena are all governed by the laws of decaying bourgeois, capitalist society, which has outlived its day. Nor is there any intraspecific competition in nature itself.”
― Trofim Lysenko, Agro Biology