See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes

Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family.