Quote for Today: Douglas Adams

The Milky Way from Cerro Pernal, Chile © Bruno Gilli/ European Southern Observatory with CCLicense
The Milky Way from Cerro Pernal, Chile
© Bruno Gilli/ European Southern Observatory with CCLicense

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 AdamsThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

10 thoughts on “Quote for Today: Douglas Adams

  1. Morgan Reply

    Amazing and I LOVE the image. Isnt it amazing what we can see with telescopes now? 🙂

    Blessings for a week filled with Inspiration ~

    • katmcdaniel Reply

      Thank you! This is week is going to feature awesome photos from the Hubble and other telescopes. I’m so looking forward to sharing them.

      Blessings to you, friend!

  2. First Night Design Reply

    Heaven and oh, he died too young. Did I ever tell you my father was the original Slartibartfast on radio and television? Well, he was!

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