Is a mountain a very large rock? Is a planet a huge mountain? These terms can be used, but the new scale of magnitude brings with it new regularities… - Stanisław Lem

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could build anything beginning with the letter 'n'.

The chances that lose in the lottery of being are invisible

We don’t need other worlds. We need mirrors. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. One world is enough, even there we feel stifled. We desire to find our own idealized image; they’re supposed to be globes, civilizations more perfect than ours; in other worlds we expect to find the image of our own primitive past.