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Science fiction13 quotes

You live and learn. At any rate, you live. — Douglas Adams · 1992 The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything...it's Forty-two. — Douglas Adams · 1978 Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. — Douglas Adams · 1992 A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams · 1992 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? — Douglas Adams · 1979 He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. — Douglas Adams · 1979 All 13 quotes →

Detective fiction3 quotes

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. — Douglas Adams · 1988 It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988 It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. — Douglas Adams · 1987

Political literature2 quotes

What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand? Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand? — James Bramston · 1729 When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality. — Russell Brand · 2014

Scientific literature2 quotes

Consciousness... Is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known. — Roger Penrose · 1989 In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. — William Gilbert · 1600

Biography1 quote

That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present. — Sydney Smith · 1845

Legal writing1 quote

To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong. — Nicholas Conyngham Tindal · 1843