Quotes by Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

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Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does wh — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
A man can control only what he comprehends, and comprehend only what he is able to put into words. The inexpressible the — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
The opportunity for evil in itself does not suffice; people need a rationale as well. Consider how unpleasant, how awkwa — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
We owe our liberation to chemistry," he went on. "For all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen io — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming. — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to....Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to. — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
All the wild beasts have been extinct for years, but it's perfectly possible to synthesize them autobiogenically. On the — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Progress is a wonderful thing of course, and I can appreciate the lactiferins that are sprinkled on the pasture to turn — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
He also said - pointedly - that space travel nowadays was an escape from the problems of Earth. That is, one took off fo — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Come now, Tichy. For half a century civilization hasn't been left to its own devices. A hundred years ago a certain Dior — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good? — Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy