Lynn Margulis quotes - page 2

Life learned early on to recognize itself. (Lynn Margulis)

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

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Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

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People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

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The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

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All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

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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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Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

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Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

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Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.

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Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before ten or twenty thousand years ago, life hit a peek of diversity. Then we appeared. We are the great meteorite. (Lynn Margulis)

What kind of grad student do you take? "I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.

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New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.

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Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

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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 that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

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People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

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Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

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To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

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Lynn Margulis

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Occupation: American Scientist
Born: March 5, 1938
Died: November 22, 2011
Quotes count: 43
Wikipedia: Lynn Margulis

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