The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean… - Stanisław Lem

We have named all the stars and all the planet, even though they might already have had names of their own. What a nerve!

I was already thinking there was no way out of the vicious circle of madness — after all, no one can think with anything but his brain, no one can be outside himself to check whether the processes taking place in his body are normal.

For moral reasons I am an atheist — for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.