Ants Quote by Lewis Thomas

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

— E. O. Wilson

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

“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 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

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

— 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 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

We are human beings, not ants.

— Jami Attenberg

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

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean.…

— Noam Chomsky

“We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.…

— Yuval Noah Harari