Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.