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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 24 quotes by Lynn Margulis Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011) was an American biologist best known for her scientific theory on the origin of complex cells, called symbiogenesis. She obtained a bachelor degree from the University of Chicago at age 19, and married Carl Sagan, then a physics student. She graduated with master's degree in genetics and zoology from the University of Chicago at age 22. While working for a PhD at... Read full biography of Lynn Margulis → 1 2 Ctrl → To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we... → 0 Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking... → 0 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... → 0 Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our... → 0 Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. 0 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... → 0 To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion. 0 All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and... → 0 If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere! 0 Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are... → 0 Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself. 0 All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new... → 0 All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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