"There is no scientific reason to think that……" — Lynn Margulis
"There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing."
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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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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
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A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous:…
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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig…
— Ruth Pitter
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I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A…
— Ray Bradbury
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I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in…
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It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be…
— Emma Watson
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If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to…
— Alfred Molina
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I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and…
— Khleo
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Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the…
— Luis Fernando Verissimo
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Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought…
— Homer
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