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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

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
Thinking, Space, Orbit
Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

This is written in the elder days as the Earth rides close to the rim of eternity, edging nearer to the dying Sun, into which her two inner companions of the solar system have already plunged to a fiery death. The Twilight of the Gods is history; and our planet drifts on and on into that oblivion from which nothing escapes, to which time itself may be dedicated in the final cosmic reckoning.

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Twilight, Two, Dying

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
Christian, Attitude, Believe
Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time Is the Simplest Thing”, p.49, Open Road Media

You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.

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Running, Cutting, Government
Clifford D. Simak (2013). “Project Mastodon”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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.

Clifford D. Simak
Believe, Race, Space
The Associated Press obituary, April 27, 1988.

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, Race, Years
Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.70, Open Road Media

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