Famous Stanisaw Lem Quotes

  • I don’t think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence. – Stanisaw Lem

    I don’t think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.– Stanisaw Lem

  • Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere. – Stanisaw Lem

    Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.– Stanisaw Lem

  • The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass. – Stanisaw Lem

    The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.– Stanisaw Lem

  • No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn’t understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets. – Stanisaw Lem

    No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn’t understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.– Stanisaw Lem

  • We don’t want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. – Stanisaw Lem

    We don’t want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.– Stanisaw Lem