Humorous Quote by Stanislaw Lem

That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard…

— Stanislaw Lem

“. . . according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets' --…

— Stanislaw Lem

Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out…

— Stanislaw Lem

When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places,…

— Stanislaw Lem

Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that…

— Stanislaw Lem

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter,…

— Stanislaw Lem

This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but…

— Stanislaw Lem

“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)”

— Stanislaw Lem

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines..

— Stanislaw Lem

Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the…

— Stanislaw Lem

“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? Only good mind you. The rest had to…

— Stanislaw Lem

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

— Stanislaw Lem