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Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Douglas Adams
Children, Maturity, Order
Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.

Douglas Adams
Children, Real, Talking

But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

Douglas Adams
Children, Thinking, Names
Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.

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Children, Party, Mean
Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?

Douglas Adams
Children, Animal, Littles
Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.

Douglas Adams
Children, Stupid, Intelligent
Douglas Adams (2013). “Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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