See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don’t. It’s like...

Share and Enjoy’ is the company motto of the hugely successful Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Complaints Division, which now covers the major land masses of three medium-sized planets and is the only part of the Corporation...

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphood was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he...

It was his subconscious which told him this—that infuriating part of a person’s brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

This is rather as if you 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...

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.

Watch?? I’m gonna pray, Man! Know any good religions?

What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?””Ask a glass of water!