Quotes by : Stanisław Lem

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen he should tell his society and his times....

Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not....

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty....

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets,....

We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentration....

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers....

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.

Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection,....