List of Clifford D. Simak Quotes

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, As A Race, May Be Going And What May Be Our Purpose In The Universal Scheme — If We Have A Purpose. In General, I Believe We Do, And Perhaps An Important One.

Could That Have Been What Happened To The Human Race - A Willing Perversity That Set At Naught All Human Values Which Had Been So Hardly Won And Structured In The Light Of Reason For A Span Of More Than A Million Years?

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 The Truth? Is The Attitude Of Faith, Of Believing In Something For Which There Can Be No More Than Philosophic Proof, The True Mark Of A Christian?

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, Then, They Might Put Up The Cash After Cutting Themselves In On Just About All Of The Profits. And, Naturally, They'd Run The Show Because It Was Their Money And All You Had Done Was The Sweating And The Bleeding.

This Is Written In The Elder Days As The Earth Rides Close To The Rim Of Eternity, Edging Nearer To The Dying Sun, Into Which Her Two Inner Companions Of The Solar System Have Already Plunged To A Fiery Death. The Twilight Of The Gods Is History; And Our Planet Drifts On And On Into That Oblivion From Which Nothing Escapes, To Which Time Itself May Be Dedicated In The Final Cosmic Reckoning.

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 Nucleus And The Slower, More Majestic Orbit Of The Galaxies About One Another To The Very Edge Of Space

The Chain Of Life Runs Smoothly From One Generation To The Next And None Of The Links Stand Out Except Here And There A Link One Sees By Accident.

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 To Me That By The Time A Race Has Achieved Deep Space Capability It Would Have Matured To A Point Where It Would Have No Thought Of Dominating Another Intelligent Species. Further Than This, There Should Be No Economic Necessity Of Its Doing So. By The Time It Was Able To Go Into Deep Space, It Must Have Arrived At An Energy Source Which Would Not Be Based On Planetary Natural Resources.

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 Life Which Must Exist Upon Other Planets Throughout The Universe.

I Have Not Long To Live. I Have Lasted More Than A Man's Average Allotted Span, And While I Still Am Hale And Hearty, I Know Full Well The Hand Of Time , While It May Miss A Man At One Reaping, Will Get Him At The Next.

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 Was The Sadness Of All Else, The Sadness Of The Earth, The Sadness Of The Failures And The Empty Triumphs.

If The Means Were Available, We Could Trace Our Ancestry - Yours And Mine - Back To The First Blob Of Life-like Material That Came Into Being On The Planet.