Lem Quote by Stanisław Lem

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.”

— Stanisław Lem

“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

“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

“Was it possible for thought to exist without consciousness?”

— Stanisław Lem

“Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.”

— Stanisław Lem

“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