Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.To explain — since every… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Sunlight played along the River Cam. People in punts happily shouted at each other to fuck off. Thin natural scientists who had… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Science fiction that's just about people wandering around in space ships shooting each other with ray guns is very dull. I like… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“There was once a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered. — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“When we told our guide that we didn't want to go to all the tourist places he took us instead to the places where… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you… — Douglas Adams Copy Share
