“I'm afraid,” he said at last, “that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one… — Douglas Adams
“I'm afraid,” he said at last, “that the Question and the Answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one logically precludes knowledge of the other. It is impossible that both can ever be known about the same Universe.”
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