"The fewer species there are and the fewer……" — Lynn Margulis
"The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask."
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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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