The only way to deal with technology is with another technology. Man knows more about his dangerous tendencies than he did a hundred years ago, and i… - Stanisław Lem

It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

I didn’t believe for a minute that this liquid colossus, which had brought about the death of hundreds of humans within itself, with which my entire race had for decades been trying in vain to establish at least a thread of communication — that this ocean, lifting me up unwittingly like a speck of dust, could be moved by the tragedy of two human beings.