Margulis Quotes

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

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

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

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

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous. — Lynn Margulis

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