Clifford D. Simak Quotes

• 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 than technology.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Continue, Civilization

• 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.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Universal, Thinking, Motion

• My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling, Invasion

• 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?

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Reason, Happened

• 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, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Except, Stretched

• 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 sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Purpose, Certainty, Earth

• 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.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deep, Thought, Another

• 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?

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Faith, Satisfied, Proof

• 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 – an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Without, Emptiness

• 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, would then the faith be dead?

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Believe, Evidence

• These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wind, Stories

• Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don’t know if it even exists.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Mystery

• 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 minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matter, Fact, Another

• 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.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Thinking, Purpose

• Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Consciousness

• 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.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Means, Available

• 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 trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Greatest, Before, Knowing

Clifford D. Simak (17)

Birth:	3rd August, 1904
Death:	25th April, 1988
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Writer

About

Clifford Donald Simak was born in Millville, Wisconsin. He was an American journalist, novelist and writer. He was honored by fans with three Hugo Awards and by colleagues with one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He began a lifelong association with the Minneapolis Star and Tribune in 1939, which continued until his retirement in 1976. He became Minneapolis Star‍ '​s news editor in 1949 and coordinator of Minneapolis Tribune‍ '​s Science Reading Series in 1961.

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