A Quotes
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“Antropolojinin insan olmanın ne demek olduğu konusunda bu kadar çok bilgiyi gün ışığına çıkarabilmesinin nedeni, kültür-aşırı bir bakış açısı üzerine kurulmuş olmasıdır. İnsan olmanın ne demek olduğunu bize bir tek kültürün söylemesi mümkün değildir. Kültür, başka bir kültürle kıyaslanana kadar (normal ya da her şeyin zaten olması gerektiği gibi olması yüzünden) 'görünmez'dir.”
Source: Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity
“Ants always eat sweet food ... but none of them haven't diabetes ?”
“Ants and savages put strangers to death.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“Ants are a curious race”
Source: Selected poems
“Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.”
Source: This Simian World
“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.”
Source: This Simian World
“Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.”
“Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.”
“Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television.”
“Ants are successful creatures; they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual!”
“Ants are terrifying, having survived for 130 million years, evolving into a monarchical society of soldiers with bizarre levels of self sacrifice. Ants keep slaves. I don’t crush them, it’s pointless, they outnumber humans tenfold by body mass.”
Source: The Someday List
“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 world for more than 50-million years.”
“Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.”
“Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
[Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]”
“Ants eat seeds, spiders eats ants, birds eat spiders, foxes eat birds, wolves eat foxes, bears eat wolves. The Sun alone will never be prey; it preys on all.”
“Ants have a powerful caste system. A colony typically contains ants that carry out radically different roles and have markedly different body structures and behaviors. These roles, Reinberg learned, are often determined not by genes but by signals from the physical and social environment. 'Sibling ants, in their larval stage, become segregated into the different types based on environmental signals,' he said. 'Their genomes are nearly identical, but the way the genes are used—turned on or off, and kept on or off—must determine what an ant "becomes." It seemed like a perfect system to study epigenetics. And so Shelley and I caught a flight to Arizona to see Jürgen Liebig, the ant biologist, in his lab.'
The collaboration between Reinberg, Berger, and Liebig has been explosively successful—the sort of scientific story ('two epigeneticists walk into a bar and meet an entomologist') that works its way into a legend. Carpenter ants, one of the species studied by the team, have elaborate social structures, with queens (bullet-size, fertile, winged), majors (bean-size soldiers who guard the colony but rarely leave it), and minors (nimble, grain-size, perpetually moving foragers). In a recent, revelatory study, researchers in Berger’s lab injected a single dose of a histone-altering chemical into the brains of major ants. Remarkably, their identities changed; caste was recast. The major ants wandered away from the colony and began to forage for food. The guards turned into scouts. Yet the caste switch could occur only if the chemical was injected during a vulnerable period in the ants’ development.
[...] The impact of the histone-altering experiment sank in as I left Reinberg’s lab and dodged into the subway. [...] All of an ant’s possible selves are inscribed in its genome. Epigenetic signals conceal some of these selves and reveal others, coiling some, uncoiling others. The ant chooses a life between its genes and its epigenes—inhabiting one self among its incipient selves.”
“Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.”
“Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.”
Source: Cross Creek
“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 them.”
“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.”
“Ants owe their superiority to their terrestrial life. This assertion may seem paradoxical, but consider the exceptional advantages afforded by a terrestrial medium to the development of their intellectual faculties, compared with an aerial medium! In the air there are the long flights without obstacles, the vertiginous journeys far from real bodies, the instability,
the wandering about, the endless forget fulness of things and oneself. On the earth, on the contrary, there is not a movement that is not a contact and does not yield precise information, not a journey that fails to leave some reminiscence ; and as these journeys are determinate, it is inevitable that a portion of the ground incessantly traversed should be registered, together with its resources and its dangers, in the animal's imagination. Thus here results a closer and much more direct communication with the external world.”
Source: Des Sociétés Animales (2e Éd.) (Éd.1878) (Sciences Sociales)
“Ants owe their superiority to their terrestrial life. This assertion may seem paradoxical, but consider the exceptional advantages afforded by a terrestrial medium to the development of their intellectual faculties, compared with an aerial medium! In the air there are the long flights without obstacles, the vertiginous journeys far from real bodies, the instability, the wandering about, the endless forgetfulness of things and oneself. On the earth, on the contrary, there is not a movement that is not a contact and does not yield precise information, not a journey that fails to leave some reminiscence ; and as these journeys are determinate, it is inevitable that a portion of the ground incessantly traversed should be registered, together with its resources and its dangers, in the animal's imagination. Thus here results a closer and much more direct communication with the external world.”
Source: Des sociétés animales
“Ants that fell foul of the little boys' sadistic actions is verification that situations can change not only quickly but also quite drastically.”
Source: Life Is a Dance
“ants - the pious insect, Randolph called them: they fill me with oh so much admiration and ah oh so much gloom: such puritan spirit in their mindless march of Godly industry, but can so anti-individual a government admit the poetry of what is past understanding? Certainly the man who refused to carry his crumb would find assassins on his trail, and doom in every smile. As for me, I prefer the solitary mole: he is no rose dependent upon thorn and root, nor ant whose time of being is organized by the analterable herd: sightless, he goes his separate way, knowing truth and freedom are attitudes of the spirit.”
Source: Other Voices, Other Rooms
“Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.”
“Antwan Patton and Andre Benjamin saved my life. That's how I view them giving me a record deal, with nothing but love and adoration. I saw Big Boi have to do what he kept doing after Dre said he didn't want to do touring and Aquemini [the label].”
“Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.”
“António Guterres role as Secretary-General in bringing all powers together is very essential` and we hope he can succeed, it's not easy of course.”
“Anuarí. La pena no enloquece, la pena no mata; va ahondando en el alma como un cuerpo de plomo en una tembladera infinita. Asombrada escucho en las noches el eco de mi voz, que te busca aguardando una respuesta. La negra verdad me hiere con saña, ¿acaso tu espíritu ha muerto también? ¡No; no! ¿Cómo es posible que tanto vigor, energía de astro, vaya a perecer en el hielo eterno?”
Source: Anuarí
“Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine. “You’re not dead.” “No,” I said. “Though we’re trying awfully hard.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“Anubis is associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journeys through Denver International Airport to the afterlife. He is usually portrayed as being half human and half jackal, and holding a metal detector in his hand ... Anubis is employed by the Department of Homeland Security to examine the hearts of all travellers to make sure they have not exceeded the weight limit for psychological baggage ... He is also shown frisking mummies and confiscating firearms and other contraband. It doesn't take much to tip the scales in favour of a dead body cavity search or an afterlifetime travel ban.”
Source: The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable or, Beneath the Burnt Umbrella
“Anushka Sharma is a dear friend; as is Jacqueline Fernandez. They always stand by me for support when it’s needed”
“Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.”
Source: Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
“Anxieties migrate, proliferate.”
Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“Anxiety about the future creates more wrinkles on the human face than the sun!”
“Anxiety always originates from a lie. All lies, whether self generated or accepted from another person, will resonate as a pendulum swinging to and fro as a reminder of an inconsistency with truth and impeccability. The further the lie is carried, the more the intensity of anxiety builds. The feeling may begin as unease, building to angst, translating to anxiety, panic, and even dread. Ultimately, anxiety creates stagnancy. What's the solution? Speak the truth even if it scares you. Be authentic.”
“Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.”
Source: Autobiography of a Face
“Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.”
“Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.”
“Anxiety and depression are your friends. They tell you there is something undone that must be done, something you must do. They demand action.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.”
Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught
“Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.”
“Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.”
Source: The Map of Life
“Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.”
“Anxiety and fear are emotions. Emotions exist only because they have given selective advantages. This makes it tempting to try to define different emotions in terms of their functions. Fear protects against present danger, anxiety against possible dangers. However, defining emotions in terms of their functions risks tacit creationism: the tendency to view bodies as if they are machines.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.”
“Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head”
“Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.”
“Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions.”
“Anxiety, and mental disorder more generally, can be exceptionally difficult to process, and for good reason. At the time of this writing, in 2023, humans are still battling the stigmas derived from centuries of misconception, fear, and discrimination around mental illness. It still has an attribution to demonic possession, evidence of witchcraft, or is labeled as a hysteria tied to an animal-like 'wandering uterus,' that could attach itself to organs in the female body, and cause disruption in bodily function and painful symptoms (seriously).”
Source: The Lost Art of Searching: Embracing Uncertainty, Discovering Intrinsic Value, and Charging Through Life One Ride at a Time