Lynn Margulis Quotes

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

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

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

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

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

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.

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

For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can't tell a live cat from a dead cat.