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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confus...more

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He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread...more

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering ...more

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After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

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He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was th...more

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In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.

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It is a West zone planet which by an inexplicable and somewhat suspicious freak of topography consists almost entirely of subtropical coastline. By an...more

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A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

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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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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

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Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

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All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of t...more

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Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.