Jesus Christ Quotes (1441 quotes)
“Scientists want to search for alien signals because that’s what gets them publicity. They are like Jesus Christ.”
“Jesus Christ?” Nambodri asked, with a faintly derogatory chuckle.
“Yes. They are exactly like Jesus Christ. You know that he turned water into wine.”
“I’ve heard that story.”
“From the point of view of pure chemistry, it is more miraculous to make wine into water than water into wine. But he did not do that. Because if he had gone to someone’s house and converted their wine into water, they would have crucified him much earlier. He knew, Jana. He knew making water into wine was a more popular thing to do.”
― Manu Joseph, Serious Men Serious Mennn n by Manu Joseph*n nn n 3.76 avg rating — 3,727 ratings — published 2010n nn n nA poignant, bitingly funny Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai’s humid tenements. nnAyyan Mani, one of the thousands of dalit (untouchable caste) men trapped in Mumbai’s slums, works in the Institute of Theory andn A poignant, bitingly funny Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai’s humid tenements. nnAyyan Mani, one of the thousands of dalit (untouchable caste) men trapped in Mumbai’s slums, works in the Institute of Theory and Research as the lowly assistant to the director, a brilliant self-assured astronomer. Ever wily and ambitious, Ayyan weaves two plots, one involving his knowledge of an illicit romance between his married boss and the institute’s first female researcher, and another concerning his young son and his soap-opera-addicted wife. Ayyan quickly finds his deceptions growing intertwined, even as the Brahmin scientists wage war over the question of aliens in outer space. In his debut novel, Manu Joseph expertly picks apart the dynamics of this complex world, offering humorous takes on proselytizing nuns and chronicling the vanquished director serving as guru to his former colleagues. This is at once a moving portrait of love and its strange workings and a hilarious portrayal of men’s runaway egos and ambitions. .n …morenn nn nnnnnnnnnnnnn
