Influence Quotes by Lynn Margulis

My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30…

— Lynn Margulis

“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I…

— Lynn Margulis

“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We…

— Lynn Margulis

“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

— Lynn Margulis

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new…

— Lynn Margulis

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed…

— Lynn Margulis

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

— Lynn Margulis

We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so…

— Lynn Margulis

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

— Lynn Margulis

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn…

— Lynn Margulis

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

— Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

— Lynn Margulis