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?
Book 1979
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotes
About the book
Moments before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, ordinary Englishman Arthur Dent is rescued by his friend Ford Prefect, who turns out to be a researcher for an electronic travel guide to the galaxy. Still in his dressing gown, Arthur is swept into a comic tour of the universe with a two-headed Galactic President, a depressed robot and a stolen starship. Douglas Adams's novel, adapted from his BBC radio series, is a satire of bureaucracy, technology and the search for meaning.
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"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is."
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the…
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.