Douglas Adams Top 10 Quotes
10 | If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. |
9 | He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. |
8 | I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) |
7 | I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. |
6 | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. |
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Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. |
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. |
2 | There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions. |
1 | Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? |