Quotes About Curiosity

it's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money . . .

A história de todas as grandes civilizações galácticas tende a passar por três fases distintas e identificáveis: a da Sobrevivência, a da Interrogação e a da Sofisticação, também conhecidas pelas fases Como, Porquê e Onde. Por exemplo, a primeira fase é caracterizada pela pergunta Como vamos comer?, a segunda pela pergunta Por que comemos? e a terceira pela pergunta Onde vamos almoçar?.

The human race is currently sitting round a rock on the other side of this hill making documentaries about themselves.

It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is, as has been remarked before often and accurately, a pretty startling kind of a thing.

Sabiendo que estaban reunidos [...] por una curiosa perversión de la física, como si las relaciones entre la gente estuvieran sujetas a las mismas leyes que regían la relación entre átomos y moléculas.

What's so great about being stuck in a dust cloud?

Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us what our present trajectory is.

The mice will see you now," he said.

What sort of ship are we in?' asked Arthur as the pit of eternity yawned beneath them. 'I don't know,' said Ford, 'I haven't opened my eyes yet.

But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.

a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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Presumably he would know what the Question to the Ultimate Answer is. It's always bothered me that we never found out." "Think of a number," said the computer, "any number.

Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn't be able to look for them." "What, are you crazy?" "It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet," said Zaphod quietly. "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

He felt that the more time he spent away out in the Galaxy the more it seemed that the number of things he didn't know anything about actually increased.

He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy.

The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that people always used to ask him what he was looking so worried

Sen iyi misin? dedi çocuk. Hay?r, dedi Arthur. Peki, sakal?nda neden bir kemik var? dedi çocuk. Onu, koyduÄŸum yeri sevmesi için eÄŸitiyorum.

They wrapped themselves in animal skins and furs which Ford Prefect acquired by a technique he once learned from a couple of ex-Pralite monks running a mind-surfing resort in the Hills of Hunian.

little green person, my stomach could take you home and cuddle you all night for the mere idea.

Arthur paused, warily. "You going to ask

Is there any tea on this spaceship?