Thinking Quotes by Douglas Adams

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

— Douglas Adams

I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford

— Douglas Adams

I think we have different value systems." "Well, mine's better.

— Douglas Adams

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

— Douglas Adams

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

— Douglas Adams

“He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.”

— Douglas Adams

One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

— Douglas Adams

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew…

— Douglas Adams

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

— Douglas Adams

Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any…

— Douglas Adams

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

— Douglas Adams

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget…

— Douglas Adams

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

— Douglas Adams

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole…

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“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

Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do…

— Douglas Adams

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

Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear…

— Douglas Adams

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

“It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him.…

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just…

— Douglas Adams

Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will…

— Douglas Adams

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

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

People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a…

— Douglas Adams

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded…

— Douglas Adams

We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we…

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But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like…

— Douglas Adams

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are…

— Douglas Adams

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

— Douglas Adams

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

— Douglas Adams

I think all cats are wild. They only act tame if there´s a saucer of milk in it for them.

— Douglas Adams

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

— Douglas Adams

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

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a…

— Douglas Adams

He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions…

— Douglas Adams

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

— Douglas Adams

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

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd…

— Douglas Adams