It was not possible to think except with one’s brain, no one could stand outside himself in order to check the functioning of his inner processes. - Stanisław Lem

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

Every science comes with its own pseudo-science, a bizarre distortion that comes from a certain kind of mind.

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.