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Babel Quotes by Douglas Adams
- "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel…
- Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything…
- Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to…
More Babel Quotes
- Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural… — Arthur Keith
- The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man,… — Douglas Adams
- How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or… — Peter Kreeft
- Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower… — Marshall McLuhan
- A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith
- As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a… — Adam Sedgwick