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Top 20 Lynn Margulis Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “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 biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?”

2. “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 biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.”

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

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive – it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.”

4. “All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive – it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.”

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

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

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “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 foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.”

6. “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 foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn’t create.”

7. “Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn’t create.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.”

8. “People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?”

9. “Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats 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.”

10. “People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats 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.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “Life learned early on to recognize itself.”

12. “Life learned early on to recognize itself.”

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

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

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “What kind of grad student do you take? “I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.”

14. “What kind of grad student do you take? “I never take a straight A student. A real scientist tends to be critical, and somewhere along the line, they had to rebel against their teachers.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.”

15. “The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “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 communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.”

16. “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 communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn’t look anything like a butterfly.”

18. “Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn’t look anything like a butterfly.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “New mutations don’t create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

19. “New mutations don’t create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.”

20. “To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable – the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.”

21. “Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable – the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.”

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can’t tell a live cat from a dead cat.”

22. “For all the accomplishments of molecular biology, we still can’t tell a live cat from a dead cat.”

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

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

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Lynn Margulis Quote: “The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.”

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

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