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  1. Appearance. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre and members of the scientific community. Phrases from it are widely recognised and often used in reference to, but outside the context of, the source material.

  2. 10. “Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.”. — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 11. “There’s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.”. — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 12.

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    • There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
    • Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
    • “My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,” Ford muttered to himself, “and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.”
    • The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
  3. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

    • Douglas Adams, Debbie Barham
    • 1979
    • “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—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.
    • “Don't Panic.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
    • “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
    • “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
  4. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quotes Showing 1-30 of 140. “Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.”. ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy. tags: logic. 186 likes. Like. “In the beginning the Universe was created.

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  6. Nov 17, 2013 · According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 42 is the Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Is it ever explained, in canon 1, why the answer to the meaning of life is 42? 1 - Book, Film, TV series or Radio series.