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Stanislaw Lem
(12 Sep 1921 - 27 Mar 2006)
Polish novelist who is widely translated and world-renowned for his science fiction works. Of these, his best-known is Solaris (1961)
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Science Quotes by Stanislaw Lem (1 quote)
Contact means the exchange of specific knowledge, ideas, or at least of findings, definite facts. But what if no exchange is possible? If an elephant is not a giant microbe, the ocean is not a giant brain.
— Stanislaw Lem
As translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, in Solaris (2002), 145.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
