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The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Book by Douglas Adams · 3 quotes · Thinking, Humor, Writing

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“God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.”

“People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.)”