All Lynn Margulis Quotes
- 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… Cash
- 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,… Answer
- 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… Agree
- Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth. Change
- 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… Alteration
- 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… Accumulation
- All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least… All
- 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… Atoms
- To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of… Capacity
- People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous. Darwin
- I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it… Accumulate
- Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. Creates
- Life learned early on to recognize itself. Early
- All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. All
- 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… Afford
- 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… All
- Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth. Detail
- 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… All
- The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. 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… Ape
- There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by… Biting
- Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a… Appearance