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  • #1
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #2
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #3
    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #4
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #5
    Ray Bradbury
    “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

    It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #6
    Ray Bradbury
    “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #7
    Ray Bradbury
    “There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #8
    Carl Sagan
    “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”
    Carl Sagan, Contact

  • #9
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #10
    Carl Sagan
    “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #11
    Carl Sagan
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #12
    Carl Sagan
    “In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #13
    Carl Sagan
    “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #14
    Carl Sagan
    “I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #15
    Carl Sagan
    “The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “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.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
    "Why, what did she tell you?"
    "I don't know, I didn't listen.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #20
    Douglas Adams
    “If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
    Douglas Adams

  • #21
    Douglas Adams
    “The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: 42

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “God's Final Message to His Creation:
    'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
    Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

  • #24
    Douglas Adams
    “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me 'Well, you haven't been there, have you? You haven't seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid' - then I can't even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the best explanation we'd got, and we've now got vastly better ones. God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I don't think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don't think the matter calls for even-handedness at all.”
    Douglas Adams

  • #26
    Douglas Adams
    “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-two 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, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    Douglas Adams

  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #29
    Douglas Adams
    “All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
    "No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #30
    Douglas Adams
    “To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe



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