Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked.He looked at me as if I were stupid.'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.
Life, said Marvin, don’t talk to me about life.
Laden with all these new possessions, I go and sit at a table. And don't ask me what the table was like because this was some time ago and I can't remember. It was probably round. [...]So let me give...
I think we have different value systems. —ArthurWell mine's better. —Ford
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.
Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.Yeah, said the voice from under the table, you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.
Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than...
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first...
He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it...
Don't panic and carry a towel
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
[The kakapo] is an extremely fat bird. A good-sized adult will weigh about six or seven pounds, and its wings are just about good for waggling a bit if it thinks it's about to trip over something — bu...
There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the diff...
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically one of them not being worth all the bother. On Earth — when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new h...
The story so far:In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects...
No, he said, look, it's very, very simple ... all I want ... is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Keep quiet and listen. And he sat. He told the Nutri-Matic about India, he told it about...