QUOTES

The thesis collection

Bacteria are people too!
What can't you do with a LacZ fusion?

-Johna van Stelten

From a telegram to César Chávez, 1968

As brothers in the fight for equality, I extend the hand of fellowship and good will and wish continuing success to you and your members... Our separate struggles are really one. A struggle for freedom, for dignity, and for humanity

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ

-Ίησους Χριστός

Das ist Leben, voll von Scheiße

-Elliott Ortiz-Soto

I will sacrifice getting laid for comedy anyday

-Jasdave Singh (Raja) Chahal

Imagine there's no Heaven, it's easy if you try

-John Lennon

e^iπ + 1 = 0

-Leonhard Euler

All you need in Genetics is toothpics and logic

-Thomas Silhavy, paraphrased

Evolution will occur whenever and wherever three conditions are met: replication, variation (mutation), and differential fitness (competition)

-Daniel Dennett

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance

-Neil deGrasse Tyson

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster

-Niklaus Wirth

I have been told I am, and I accept that judgement, but I don't certainly feel white. I feel like an American

-Stephen Colbert

To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems

-Homer Simpson

A double quote for the war in Lebanon and the Mexican elections of 2006

Only the dead have seen an end to war

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

-George Santayana

About the 2006 Oscars

Crash is not even the best movie among movies with that title

-Enrique Treviño

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one

-Bill Gates

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl

-Jean-Luc Godard

Que ningún ciudadano se imponga y perpetue en el ejercicio del poder, y esta será la última revolución

-Porfirio Díaz, Plan de la Noria, 1871

Sufragio efectivo, no reelección

-Francisco Indalecio Madero, Plan de San Luis, 1910

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land

-Jim Morrison

About the 2004 american presidential elections

We learned that logic is overshadowed by fear, ignorance and prejudice masquerading as morality

-Anonymous

La mayoría de los hombres y las mujeres, desde nacimiento o por naturaleza, no tienen los medios para avanzar en riqueza o poder, pero todos tiene la habilidad de avanzar en conocimiento

-ΠΥΘΑΓΌΡΑΣ

Cada día es un claroscuro que la vida ha de colorear
Desde el Edén, ay nos pica la curiosidad
Somos cuerpo y alma en constante rivalidad
Deseamos y provocamos
Milenios pasan y desde el Edén todo es igual

-Fiel a la Vega

Dunkel ist das Leben, ist der Tod

-Li Po

Beneath the stain of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

-Trent Reznor

Seré por siempre tu amante, tu novia la soledad

-Café Tacuba