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Universe Quotes by Douglas Adams

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Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. Douglas Adams jokes that the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything is 42, while also noting that power often hides behind distractions. He reminds us that each person creates their own universe by perception.

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In an infinite Universe anything can happen.

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And so the Universe ended.

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...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure.

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“After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.”

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“In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.”

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The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

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I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

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Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

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It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

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My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

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If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch…

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Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more…

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“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been…

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All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think,…

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Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you…

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We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom…

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It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their…

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If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is…

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“Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing…

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To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that…

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All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister,…

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“The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.…

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Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any…

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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here,…

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Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to…

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There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why…

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If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never…

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“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life…

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We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom…

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We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care,…

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The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that…

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“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space…

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It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this [Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species'] and begin to…

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Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there…

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My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore…

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The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

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The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life…

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a…

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“The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang…

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Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.

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“But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw.”

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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…