Douglas Adams Quotes

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

The universe is a great mystery.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.