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Clifford D. Simak

American Writer

Born: Aug 3, 1904

Died: Apr 25, 1988

Another Light Me Thinking Time Universe

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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

Time Day Matter Gone Minute Fact Never Had Along Hour Another Another Day Said Same Just Moved Second

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

Future Time Single Past Universe Stretched Medium Way No Future Except Never-Ending Bracket Itself Infinite Either Each Extending Phase Number

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

Light Values Willing More Structured Could Had Been Years Won Than Human Happened Which Span Race Reason Naught Human Race Human Values Hardly Million Million Years Set

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

Technology Path Other Must Some Civilization New Method Were Continue Than Barbarism Mankind Found Based Present

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

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

Dark Light Single Nothing Neither Feature Had He Knew Emptiness Without Nor Matrix Where Happened Place Utter Here

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

Time Me Space Thought Would Seem Point Another Dominating Intelligent Matured Achieved Where Race Capability Deep Deep Space Species By The Time

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

Alien Feeling Invaded Invasion Reluctance Taken Over Likely Due Use

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

Wind Tell High Fires Dogs North Burn Stories

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

Attitude Truth Faith Alone You Man Truth Is Satisfied Christian Enough Mark Philosophic Way Out Finding Proof Something More He True Than Which Mean Should Believing

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

Life Thinking Universe Other Earth Must Only Purpose Throughout Talk Am Exist Human Which Planets Human Life

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

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