“One of the most incredible secrets of science fiction (although one not too closely guarded) is the fact that 99 percent of… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Only a hundred years ago the idea that an order might arise without a personal Author appeared so nonsensical to you that… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“I took care to replace the Compendium in its correct pamphlet, and in doing so dislodged a slim pamphlet by Grastrom, one… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“...it gave me a little plastic book with four fold-outs, maps of the city's transit system. When I wanted to go somewhere,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“I spent the afternoon in a bookstore. There were no books in it. None had been printed for nearly half a century.… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“It might hear us. But what's its name? We have named all the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“We came here as we truly are, and when the other side shows us that truth—the part of it we pass over in silence—we’re… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“It's true that even though I'm a world unto myself, I've just a speck of dust in the avalanche of events. But nothing will… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn’t afraid, because he knew he’d never carry it out. Right, but now,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. We see what is taking place in front of us… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Not that this deterred him and his friend Klapaucius from further experimentation, which showed that the extent of a dragon's existence depends mainly on… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“A man craves ultimate truths. Every mortal mind, I think, is that way. But what is ultimate truth? It's the end of the road,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“I didn’t believe for a minute that this liquid colossus, which had brought about the death of hundreds of humans within itself, with which… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
