"The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to……" — Lynn Margulis
"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 and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact."
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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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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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Life learned early on to recognize itself.
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
— Noam Chomsky
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The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary…
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of…
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is…
— Cyril Connolly
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you…
— William J. Clinton
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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our…
— Anne Roiphe
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
— Brenda Ueland
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We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our…
— Calvin Coolidge
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