Top 40 Lynn Margulis Quotes
#1. 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.
Lynn Margulis
#2. Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
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#3. People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.
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#4. To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
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#5. 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.
Lynn Margulis
#6. My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
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#7. But the truth is far less interesting than any of these explanations. The truth is, I thought I wanted something, but it turns out I didn't. End of story. I wanted the reward and not the struggle. I wanted the result and not the process. I was in love with not the fight but only the victory. And
Mark Manson
#8. Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.
Lynn Margulis
#9. Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.
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#10. New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.
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#11. 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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#12. All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.
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#13. Racecar driving is a lot like sex; all men think they're good at it.
Jay Leno
#14. Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.
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#15. And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.
Carol Kane
#16. 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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#17. We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.
Dave Barry
#18. Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
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#19. A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#20. Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.
Andre Vltchek
#21. 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.
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#22. You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run the price of oil up to extract concession.
George W. Bush
#23. The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.
Connie Willis
#27. It'll be down to you, Harry, to show them that a Seeker has to have something more than a rich father. Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we've got to win today, we've got to." "So no pressure, Harry," said Fred, winking at him.
J.K. Rowling
#28. If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!
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#29. Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
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#30. All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
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#31. Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
#35. I learned to bet the Red Sox, the Celtics, Suffolk Downs. I thought it was a glorious life - pull up to the doughnut shop, spread out, and plan your day.
Alex Rocco
#36. 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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#38. For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat.
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#40. Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.
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