"Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman……" — Lynn Margulis
"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 life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being."
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Lynn Margulis
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22 Quotes by Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis has 22 quotes on this site.
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The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the…
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Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the…
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and…
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Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire…
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did…
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The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I…
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All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it…
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Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver…
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To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless.…
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People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
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I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to…
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Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like…
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the…
— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he…
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A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and…
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