The day after he asked Professor Wu Wen-jer about the possibility of pursuing myrmecological research, Wu brought him a stack of articles from around the world and noted that ants had provided important material for life sciences research.
當時他問吳文哲老師，研究螞蟻如何？第二天老師拿來一大疊國外文獻，表示螞蟻是研究生命科學的重要材料，鼓勵他做本土的開路先鋒。