American - Writer | August 3, 1904 - April 25, 1988
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
LifePurposeI AmThinkingUniverse
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.
TimeDaySaidMatterNeverGone
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.
BackFirstPlanetAvailableMine
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.
SpaceMeThinkingPlanEdgeMore
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?
LightValuesRaceMoreHumanReason
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.
TechnologyPathPresentNewMankind
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.
LifePurposeMeSpeakEarthSeems
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.
LightDarkPlaceNothingSingle
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.
TimeSpaceMeDeepThoughtRace
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?
FaithBelieveFaceFindDeadMust
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.
FeelingAlienOverInvasionTaken
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
WindBurnDogsTellHighFires
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