People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost… — 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
Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford — 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
You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch. — 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
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew… — 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
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
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn’t the forces of… — 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
I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that an Indonesian island chicken has probably had a much more natural life than one raised on a battery… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping… — 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