"The urgency to mate persists in all people……" — Lynn Margulis
"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 for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years."
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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