Bert Holldobler quotes
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“The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.”
-- Bert HolldoblerSource : Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press
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“If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.”
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“We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.”
-- Bert HolldoblerSource : Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1990). “The Ants”, p.370, Harvard University Press
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“Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent unit and compared with the organism in the design of experiments, with the individuals treated as the rough analogues of cells.”
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“Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.”
Source : "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.
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