Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I certainly don’t like the idea of missionaries. In fact, the whole business fills me with fear and alarm. I don’t believe… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
So, the world is fine. We don’t have to save the world—the world is big enough to look after itself. What we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?"… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
"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 Image
“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 Image