"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."

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Source : Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press

Bert Holldobler

#Nuclear Quotes #World Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“I want to be your personal penguin. Please?”
“I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up and give that first speech. I only know I had to. What was it Kierkegaard said about free acts? They're the ones that, looking back, you realize you couldn't help doing.”

Source : "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.
“Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.”
“To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god.”
“I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.”
“He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heavenâ€”at least in this lifeâ€”was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.”
“Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.”
“Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.”

Source : Piers Anthony (2002). “Centaur Aisle”, p.73, Del Rey

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