Clifford D. Simak Quotes

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• Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.
• This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.
• You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why,…
• My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem…
• It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it…
• Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so…
• And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past,…
• It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the…
• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method…
• It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the…
• If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came…
• I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we,…
• Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence,…
• These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
• What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out…
• We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the…
• My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.
• Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
• Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
• When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the…

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