"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

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Source : Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.131, Del Rey

Douglas Adams

#Humor Quotes #Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.”
“Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?”
“The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!”
“People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You wake in the morning and proclaim yourself to be the bearer of goodness. "I will bring good. I will attract good. I will create good. Good things happen to me, and my life is good." You start to move into the track of goodness, and that becomes a place of abundance, a place of rest, a place of relaxation, and a place of trust.”
“Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.”
“The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.”
“These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.”

Source : "Kamala Harris: Power Prosecutor". Interview with Dana Perino, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 14, 2011.

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