Douglas Adams Quotes

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

• This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must always be either bigger or smaller than they were at some arbitrary point in time to which all things are compared. The panties that are possibly tighter than they were. When? You can't say when. But you are absolutely positive no question that it's true.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

Some is not a number. Soon is not a time.

It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

We won't know for a few years.

The impossible happens.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Many of the things which can never be, often are.

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.

The only time a dead certainty applies is in a dream world.