Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Francisco J. Ayala
Born: March 12, 1934
Died: March 3, 2023 (aged 88)
Bio: Francisco José Ayala Pereda was a Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He was a Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year.
Known for:
- Darwin's Gift (2007)
- La cabeza del cordero (1949)
- Usurpers (1996)
- Muertes de perro (1995)
- El Fondo Del Vaso (1962)