104 Quotes by Clifford D. Simak

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

We thought all the time that we were passing through time when we really weren't, when we never have. We've just been moving along with time.

By the time it was able to go into deep space, it must have arrived at an energy source which would not be based on planetary natural resources.

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make the concept work, but had not understood enough to be aware of its consequences. With.

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.

University politics,” declared Oop, “doesn’t care about liberal traditions or any other kind of traditions.

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.

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

As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. He.