Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communications between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

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14 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:29:57.680 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- But, says man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It proves you exist, and so therefore you don't. Q.E.D.

- Oh dear, says God, I hadn't thought of that, and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

- Oh, that was easy, says man, and for an encore he goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

- Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys.

- But this didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme for his best-selling book, Well That About Wraps It Up for God.

- Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communications between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

- Hey, Ford. This towel's moved.

- Yes. That's a six-light-year jump.

- Good. That means we' re near Bernard's Star. We can jump a ship there.

- Look. I hate to ask this, but what exactly am I doing here?

- Simple. I rescued you from the Earth.

- Well, what happened to the Earth?

- It's been disintegrated. Has it?

- Yes. It just boiled away into space.

- Listen, I'm... I'm a bit upset about that.

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And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Drink up. The world's about to end.

Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

What we demand is solid facts. -No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand. -We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts.

By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. And if the machine actually goes and finds it, we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The funniest lines and quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV Series, with sound clips.

Actors: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), David Learner (Marvin the Paranoid Android), Peter Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian Astra), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), David Tate (Eddie the Computer), Martin Benson (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Richard Evelyn Vernon (Slartibartfast), Valentine Dyall (Deep Thought)

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