Prabhupada, Vrndavana, November 12, 1972: […] This is the fact of creation. Creation, there is machine, or there is electronic working and the buttons are pushed by the Supreme Lord. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate. His electronic machine is so subtle and powerful that we cannot understand.
We say “nature.” Because, due to our ignorance, we cannot explain how the nature is working, we give an evasive reply. Just like a flower is coming from the seed. The tree is coming, the flower is coming, the fruit is coming. So we simply give an evasive reply: “By nature, it is coming.” But we cannot explain how it is coming.
But there is explanation. Just like in our, this tape recording machine, we do not know; we push some button. It is recording. But there is a great manipulation of the machine. That we do not know. As soon as it is not working, because we are ignorant, we go to the mechanic: “Just find out what is the wrong.” He knows; he puts the things in right way.
Again it works. So we take the total working and we may say it is working by nature. No. There is brain. There is pushing of button. Everything is there. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gita.
mayadhyaksena prakrtih
suyate sa-caracaram
hetunanena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate
Mayadhyaksena. “I am pushing the buttons.” He is… But the His pushing of buttons and acting on the machine is so subtle and so quick and so immediate that we cannot explain. We think it is automatically done. We think that it is automatically…
Krishna’s energy is so powerful that He puts the potency in a seed. Bijo ‘ham sarva-bhutanam. Krishna says bija, means “seed,” sarva-bhutanam. “Whatever is coming out, being manifested, the seed, I am.” Means–“Seed, I am”–means “It is manufactured under My supervision.” Full lecture

"At the centre of the research work of the Czech molecular biologist and biochemist Jiri Friml, is the growth hormone auxin"
Koerber Foundatio, Tuesday, 7 September: In the Great Hall of Hamburg City Hall, the Koerber Foundation will present the 2010 Koerber European Science Award, which is endowed with 750,000 euros, to Jiri Friml. Hamburg’s Mayor Christoph Ahlhaus will welcome the invited guests.
At the centre of the research work of the Czech molecular biologist and biochemist Jiri Friml is the growth hormone auxin. Its distribution regulates what is up and what is down in a plant, how much it grows in a particular direction and where individual ‘organs’ are located. These findings are seen as a milestone in gaining a greater understanding of numerous physiological processes in plants. However, they are also of pre-eminent importance to agronomic and medical research.
Jiri Friml has been Professor for Plant Systems Biology at the University of Ghent, Belgium since 2007. The 37-year-old went to the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne in 1997, obtaining his doctorate in biology at the University of Cologne in 2000.
In 2001 he moved to the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Tuebingen. Here he headed a research group before gaining a further doctorate in biochemistry at the University of Brno. Jiri Friml is one of the top five most frequently quoted plant scientists in Europe.
On 6 September 2010 at 4:00 p.m. Jiri Friml will present his research work in the main building of the University of Hamburg as part of a university lecture on the subject “Auxin – How cells make a plant”.
In 2010, the Koerber Prize is being awarded for the 26th time. Every year, outstanding scientists working in Europe are honoured for research work that holds great future promise. The award goes to excellent and innovative research approaches with high application potential on the way to achieving international standing. Selection committees comprising leading scientists from all over Europe search for suitable award candidates, on whom the Trustee Committee then decides.
http://www.koerber-preis.de.
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