The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasnโt infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinityโdistance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.
Douglas AdamsThe idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.
Douglas AdamsNobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
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