Quotes About Observation

Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp. There

A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey—a non-preying mantis if you like.

When the girl sitting at the next table looked away for a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever. When

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

You know because you've been it, and I know because I'm dead and it gives one such a wonderfully uncluttered perspective.

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 obvious...If humans don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.

Arthur ekranlara bak?p gözlerini k?rp??t?rd? ve önemli bir ÅŸeyi kaç?r?yormuÅŸ hissine kap?ld?. Birden bunun ne olduÄŸunu fark etti. bu uzay gemisinde çay var m?? diye sordu.

He had repaired his ship – that is, he'd watched with alert interest whilst a service robot had repaired it for him. It

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do.

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

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. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport'.

I wasn't in the universe, I was in England, a point that has been made to me before.

Tips for aliens in New York: Land anywhere, Central Park, anywhere. No one will care or indeed even notice.

Don't stand there looking like a startled whatsisname, what are those things that aren't seals? Much worse than seals. Big, blubbery things. Dugongs. Don't stand there looking like a startled dugong. Why has that . . .

sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But, Mrs. Benson, stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.

just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

They soared with ease, basking in electromagnetic rays from the star Sol, biding their time, grouping, preparing. The planet beneath them was almost perfectly oblivious of their presence, which was just how they wanted it for the moment.

PRODO -explicó- es algo que no podemos ver, que no distinguimos o que nuestra mente no nos deja observar porque creemos que es un problema de otro. Eso es lo que significa PRODO. Problema de Otro. El cerebro se limita solamente a perfilarlo, es como un punto ciego. Si se mira directamente no se ve, a menos que se sepa qué es exactamente. La única esperanza consiste en percibirlo por sorpresa con el rabillo del ojo.

His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this - If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

Uma das coisas que Ford Prefect jamais conseguiu entender em relação aos seres humanos era seu hábito de afirmar e repetir continuamente o óbvio mais óbvio.

So what's the point of showing me something I can't see? So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't meant to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.