The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. Lynn Margulis fewquestionspecies Change image and share on social
People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous. Lynn Margulis darwinpeopleridiculous Change image and share on social
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 accumulationbelievechange Change image and share on social
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. Lynn Margulis arrogancechoosedangerous share on social
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 dieearthflower share on social
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create. Lynn Margulis createeliminatemaintain Change image and share on social
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. Lynn Margulis createearthlife Change image and share on social
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. Lynn Margulis butterflycaterpillar Change image and share on social
Life learned early on to recognize itself. Lynn Margulis earlylearnlife Change image and share on social
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 biologyboundarybuild Change image and share on social