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Lynn Margulis Quotes

American - Scientist | March 5, 1938 - November 22, 2011

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

Create Natural Natural Selection

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

Butterfly Look Anything Caterpillar

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.

Warm Egg Animals Sexuality Own Wet

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.

Life Good Beginning World Story You

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.

Work People Building Biology More

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

Life Earth More Like Verb Itself

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.

Change Random New Over Evidence Led

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?

Discipline Intelligence Grow Humanity

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

Human Ask Consciousness Ecology

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.

Life Respect Talking Well-Being

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.

Arrogance Better Powerful Unique

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?

Life Enough Evolution New Question

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