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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.”

Quote by Clifford D. Simak

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Clifford D. Simak

Clifford D. Simak was an American science fiction writer known for his unique literary style and profound insights into the cosmos. His works often blend philosophical and scientific elements, exploring the meaning of human existence and the mysteries of the universe. more

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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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“If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.”

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“An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.”

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“The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.”

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“It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.”

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“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

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“You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.”

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“My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.”

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“We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.”

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“After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.”

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