Species Quotes by Douglas Adams

8 Species quotes by Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams’s eight humorous snippets on species showcase his trademark wit, providing a brief, entertaining spin on the topic.

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The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up…

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“So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone,…

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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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I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our…

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For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century… We are now heaving more than a thousand different species…

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The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.…

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In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time…

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We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

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What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he…

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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…

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One is never alone with a rubber duck.

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This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

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There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

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“Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets…

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“The Universe, the whole infinite Universe. The infinite suns, the infinite distances between them, and yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely…

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People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating…

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Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still…

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Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered.

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“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…

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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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“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of…

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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…

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