Quotes by : Stanisław Lem

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired,....

A man can control only what he comprehends, and comprehend only what he is able to put into words. The....

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger....

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

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the....

Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by....

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

The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved....

Come now, Tichy. For half a century civilization hasn't been left to its own devices. A hundred years....