Pretentious Quotes for my Thesis

Dedication: to grandpa; from a Welsh poet, perhaps Dylan Thomas (last verse of 'And Death Shall Have no Dominion'), perhaps someone who actually wrote in Welsh
Introduction
Materials and Methods: i'm prepared to do anything as long as someone else works out how to do it and gives me simple instructions... -- Sean Wallace; What we learn about is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our methods of questioning. -- Werner Heisenberg
Results 0 - general remarks on CEFs
Results 1 - actin
Results 2 - myosin
Results 3 - gene delivery: from DK about electroporation
Discussion
References: The literature, especially in recent years, has come to resemble `The Blob', growing and consuming everything in its path, and Steve McQueen isn't going to come to our rescue. -- The Mole

Unassigned or to consider:

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. -- Alan Turing (future directions?)
Something from 'On Growth and Form'
Whatever Aristotle said about chick embryo hearts
something from 'The Virtuoso' by or about Gimcrack and his microscopes
Hooke?
Vitruvius
It is a laborious madness, and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books. -- Jorge Luis Borges
It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience. -- St Augustine
It is better to create badly than to appreciate well. -- Gareth Jones (which one?)
Work alone does not suffice: the efforts must be intelligent. -- Charles B. Rogers (not really appropriate, sadly)
There are many ways of going crazy, but the most valuable of them is this one which makes a genius out of an ordinary man. -- Claudio Grondi