Stanislaw Lem Quotes

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoyed it is because the depth of stories you can tell is pretty endless with space and everything.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus a movie.

Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But we will never run out of stories.

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart.

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In science fiction we can approach that mystery, not in small, everyday symbols, but in bigger ones of space and time.