"People say I am against Darwin. That is…" — Lynn Margulis
"People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous."
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Lynn Margulis
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22 Quotes by Lynn Margulis
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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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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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Life learned early on to recognize itself.
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More Darwin Quotes
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
— Henry Adams
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against…
— Michael Bloomberg
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If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number…
— Kirk Cameron
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human…
— Friedrich Engels
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how…
— Karl Pearson
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt,…
— Alexander McQueen
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The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,…
— Karl Popper
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The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say,…
— Francis Darwin
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Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
— Richard Dawkins
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea…
— Daniel Dennett
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