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Stanislav Lem

Mathematics never reveals man ...

Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.

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Stanislav Lem

Good books tell the truth, eve...

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

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Stanislav Lem

There are friends with whom we...

There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of whi

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Stanislav Lem

We are like snails, each stuck...

We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.

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Stanislav Lem

Of the two powers, the two cat...

Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.

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Stanislav Lem

The horse respects and obeys m...

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

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Stanislav Lem

For what are myths if not the ...

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

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Stanislav Lem

Cancel me not - for what then ...

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

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Stanislav Lem

Come, every frustum longs to b...

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

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Stanislav Lem

Come, let us hasten to a highe...

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

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Stanislav Lem

I'll grant the random access t...

I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part.

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Stanislav Lem

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Bana...

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

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Stanislav Lem

Not far from here, by a white ...

Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one

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Stanislav Lem

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored....

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

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Stanislav Lem

We have no need of other world...

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

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Stanislav Lem

We don't want to conquer the c...

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

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Stanislav Lem

And yet we knew, for a certain...

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

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Stanislav Lem

Art gives man a reminder that ...

Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

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Stanislav Lem

Behind every glorious facade t...

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

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Stanislav Lem

Burn with that consuming fire ...

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

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