Lynn Margulis Quotes

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.

Lynn Margulis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 5, 1938 - November 22, 2011

Topics

TravelSpaceSurviveThinkDoingUs

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'

Maz Jobrani

ParentsMomLawyerThinkYouSay

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

John L. Phillips

LookingFindingLooksNewWillKeep

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

Mike Peters

LiveSocietyBelieveChoicePersonal

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Michael Pollan

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I'm not gonna just disappear after one album.

Jorja Smith

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They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.

Denis Kearney

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I love the warmth of apple pie.

Christina Tosi

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Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair.

Clint Smith

GirlSometimesMoreRopeDespair

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

Antoine Lavoisier

WillYearsHeadCutOnlyInstant

This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

PowerDemocracyPrideCountryMatter

I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.

Willie Smits

StressImportantWildRescueMust

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

William Pepper

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