People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

I believe in no final solutions.

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

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 have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature theorizing are positive disadvantages in approaching a planet where-as has become clear-anything is possible... The fact is that in spite of his cautious nature the scrupulous Giese more than once jumped to premature conclusions. Even when on their guard, human beings inevitably theorize.