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We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe

Clifford D. Simak

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Clifford D. Simak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: August 3
Died: 1988
Died: April 24
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.
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This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.
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Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
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Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept we don't know if it even exists.
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Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .
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There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith- and, indeed, our hope- the plan might well be it. I think we have thought too small and have been too afraid.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
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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.
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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
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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.
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