Advantage Quote by Bert Holldobler

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue…

— Lewis Thomas

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use…

— Lewis Thomas

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about…

— E. O. Wilson

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use…

— Lewis Thomas

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

— E. O. Wilson

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized…

— Lewis Thomas

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the…

— E. O. Wilson

“Ants have a powerful caste system. A colony typically contains ants that carry out radically different roles and have markedly different body structures and…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Ants brilliantly self-organized to evolve remarkably robust and hugely successful and sophisticated physical and social structures, but it took them millions of years to…

— Geoffrey West

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants'…

— Bernard Werber

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

— Clarence Day

“Why do ants alone have parasites whose intoxicating moistures they drink and for whom they will sacrifice even their young? Because as they are…

— Cyril Connolly