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“I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because, by and large, we don't have the brainpower to grapple with it. Instead, the enormous zest for science that I see in first-graders and the lesson from the remnant hunter-gatherers both speak eloquently: A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Las mujeres no van a la guerra; la sufren en su vida, en su dignidad y en su cuerpo por el simple hecho de ser mujer. Las mujeres no van a la guerra, huyen de ellas. Las mujeres no van a la guerra porque ya viven en guerra estén donde estén.”
― Barbijaputa, Machismo. 8 pasos para quitártelo de encima

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“you may not have left (many) bruises on my skin, but you left giant blackberry bruises all over my soul.   - i still wonder who i would have been.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“No sé cómo nos las apañamos las mujeres para ser las que tenemos fama de «locas» pero aun así no nos dedicamos a violar, agredir y matar a hombres hasta el punto de que la OMS tenga que alertar de que la violencia contra ellos es ya de proporciones pandémicas, como sí sucede con la violencia sobre las mujeres.”
― Barbijaputa, Machismo. 8 pasos para quitártelo de encima

“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. In”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy