All Clifford D. Simak Quotes
- Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it. Age
- This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything. Black
- 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,… All
- 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… Able
- 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… Achieved
- Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so… All
- 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,… Bracket
- 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… All
- 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… Barbarism
- 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… Edge
- If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came… Ancestry
- 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,… Been
- 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,… Ability
- These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. Burn
- 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… Alone
- 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… All
- My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. Alien
- Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists. Concept
- Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. Consciousness
- 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… All
- A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order… Acts
- Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it… All
- Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe. Alien
- It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened -… Dark
- Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest… All