“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 my entire race had for decades been trying in vain to establish at least a thread… — 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
