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

Repetition draws us into music, and repetition draws music into us. —
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

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

To this point, musical repetition has been viewed as a particular kind of object. But it can also be viewed as a particular kind of behavior. —
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

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

Life learned early on to recognize itself. —
Lynn Margulis

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

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

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

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

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