Lynn Margulis Quotes

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• The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before…
• Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,…
• 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 biological…
• Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
• Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a…
• The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment…
• All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least…
• Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin…
• To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of…
• People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
• I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it…
• Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
• Life learned early on to recognize itself.
• All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
• Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking…
• The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative…
• Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.
• All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and…
• The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
• Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of…

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