How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another? - 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!

One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.

Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.