Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.