translation.en: E.O. Wilson once told me that when he looked at ants -- he loved them, of course, and he wanted to learn more about them -- he consciously looked at them from the standpoint of scale.
translation.zh: E.O.威尔逊有次告诉我， 他喜欢看蚂蚁，当然也想多了解蚂蚁， 他有意识地从尺度这方面去看蚂蚁。