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Quotes About Curiosity

Buz dolab?na adeta dans ederek gitti, içindeki aç?s?ndan en az tüylü üç ÅŸeyi buldu ve onlar? bir tabaÄŸa koyarak iki dakika boyunca dikkatle izledi. Bu süre içinde hareket etmek için herhangi bir giriÅŸimde bulunmad?klar?ndan dolay? onlar? kahvalt? oalrak adland?rd? ve yedi.
~ Douglas Adams
What's this fish doing in my ear?" "It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.
~ Douglas Adams
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question, "How can we eat?", the second by the question, "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question, "Where shall we have lunch?
~ Douglas Adams
His eyes passed over the solid shapes of the instruments and computers that lined the bridge. They winked away innocently at him. He stared out at the stars, but none of them said a word.
~ Douglas Adams
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons. Curiously
~ Douglas Adams
They threw themselves back to the ground that seemed to spin hideously around them. "What was that?" hissed Arthur. "Something red," hissed Ford back at him. "Where are we?" "Er, somewhere green." "Shapes," muttered Arthur, "I need shapes." The
~ Douglas Adams
To those who said that they had a feeling soap wasn't found in mines, the Captain had ventured to suggest that perhaps that was because no one had looked hard enough, and this possibility had been reluctantly acknowledged.
~ Douglas Adams
Otostopçunun Galaksi Rehberi her uygarl???n üç aÅŸamadan geçtiÄŸini söyler: Hayatta Kalma, Sorgulama ve İncelikli DüÅŸünme, bir baÅŸka deyiÅŸle Nas?l, Neden ve Nerede aÅŸamalar?. Rehber ÅŸöyle der: 'İlk aÅŸama Nas?l Yiyebiliriz? sorusuyla, ikinci aÅŸama Neden Yiyoruz sorusuyla, üçüncü aÅŸamaysa ÖÄŸle YemeÄŸini Nerede Yiyelim? sorusuyla tan?mlanmaktad?r.
~ Douglas Adams
Görüyorsun ya hiçbir zaman 'Evrende yaln?z?z' diye düÅŸünmemelerinin nedeni, bu akÅŸama kadar Evrenden haberleri bile olmamas?yd?. Bu akÅŸama kadar.
~ Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
~ Don't Panic
Curiosamente, lo único que pasó por la mente del tiesto de petunias mientras caía fue: ¡Oh, no! Otra vez, no. Mucha gente ha imaginado que si supiéramos exactamente lo que pensó el tiesto de petunias, conoceríamos mucho más de la naturaleza del Universo de lo que sabemos ahora.
~ Douglas Adams
Quello che lo irritava di più era il fatto che la gente era solita chiedergli sempre per quale ragione era così irritato.
~ Douglas Adams
The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. 'For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?
~ Douglas Adams
And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?
~ Douglas Adams
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that 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.
~ Douglas Adams
The mess is extraordinary, and has to be seen to be believed, but if you don't have any particular need to believe it, then don't go and look, because you won't enjoy it.
~ Douglas Adams
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.
~ Douglas Adams
I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be.
~ Douglas Coupland
Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?
~ Douglas Coupland
As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
~ Douglas Coupland
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
~ Douglas Coupland
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.
~ Douglas Coupland
Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
~ Douglas Coupland
Lonely people want to be dead, yet we're still not quite ready to go—we don't want to miss the action; we want to see who wins next year's Academy Awards.
~ Douglas Coupland