Top 23 Quotes by Lynn Margulis

About Lynn Margulis

These are some quotes by American author Lynn Margulis Scientist, who lived between March 5, 1938 and November 22, 2011.

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

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.

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.

Lynn Margulis

Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.

Lynn Margulis

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.

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.

Lynn Margulis

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

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

Lynn Margulis

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

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

Lynn Margulis

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.

Lynn Margulis

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

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

Lynn Margulis

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.

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.

Lynn Margulis

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.

Lynn Margulis

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