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The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.

12 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 6 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:00:35.493 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Maybe it was designed by somebody with eyes that respond to different wavelengths.

- Or didn't have much imagination.

- Perhaps he was feeling very depressed.

- It's beginning to make me feel space-sick.

- Time-sick. We're going backwards through time.

- Now I think I really am going to be ill.

- Go ahead. We could do with a little color about the place.

- Oh, that's better. Have you managed to make sense of the controls?

- No. We just stopped fiddling with them.

- Okay, Hotblack, the black ship's ready to crash into the sun. Time to get there ourselves.

- The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.

- For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' The second by the question, 'Why do we eat?' The third by the question, 'Where shall we have lunch?'

- Though it will usually take a large civilization many thousands of years to pass through the 'How?', 'Why?' and 'Where?' phases, small social groupings, under stressful conditions can pass through these phases with extreme rapidity, thus...

- How are we doing?

- Badly.

- Where are we going?

- I don't know.

- Why not?

- Shut up.

- Excitement and adventure and really wild things...

[...]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) poster

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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