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

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Source : "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. 1996.

Lynn Margulis

#Consciousness Quotes #Compare Quotes #Ecology Quotes

“Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is... on a world-wide basis.”
“When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.”
“That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.”
“You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.”
“Remember, it is not your weakness that will get in the way of God's working through you, but your delusions of strength. His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Point to His strength by being willing to admit your weakness.”
“Celebrity is the religion of our time.”
“Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."”
“The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.”

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