The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre and members of the scientific community. Phrases from it are widely recognised and often used in reference to, but outside the context of, the source material. Many writers on popular science, such as Fred Alan Wolf, Paul Davies, and Michio Kaku, have used quotations in their books to illustrate facts about cosmology or philosophy.[1][2][3]
... while Wolf quotes Douglas Adams, Lily Tomlin and himself in chapter headings...
We talk a little about Douglas Adams, who is the dedicatee of his book
As I listen, I recall where I have read ideas as fanciful as his before: in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is a fan, it turns out. Met the author once.