Biology Quote by Michael S. Gazzaniga

“As a subject of behavioral study, nest architecture offers an appealing feature that practically no other behavior offer; namely, the nest is a perfect…

— Walter Tschinkel

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 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

I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is…

— Lewis Thomas

Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent…

— Bert Holldobler

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

— Victor J. Stenger

“Just because an individual ant seems to wander around aimlessly, doesn't mean a colony of ants will behave this way. This is sometimes known…

— Rich Jolly

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

— E. O. Wilson

“Hierarchical organization in biological systems thus is characterized by an exquisite array of delicately and intricately interlocked order, steadily increasing in level and complexity…

— Clifford Grobstein

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

There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a…

— W. S. Merwin

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