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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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How do you feel? he asked him. Like a military academy, said Arthur. Bits of me keep on passing out.
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I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
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See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
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To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.
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And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News. The photograph was very convincing, and I'm only surprised that more-reputable journals like New Scientist, or even just The Sun, haven't followed up with more details. We should be told.
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Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
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What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
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Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
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Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!
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The point is, you see, said Ford, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.
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Who is this god person anyway?
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
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