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Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework...more

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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.

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He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its t...more

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First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we ...more

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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very ...more

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Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see...more

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I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that...more

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You mean you've been in this same set of rooms here for... two hundred years?' murmured Richard. 'You'd think someone would notice, or think it was od...more

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

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And as they drifter up their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible...more

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The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up the civil, commercial, a...more

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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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The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its crew of four were ill as ease knowing that they h...more

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A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.

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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist...more