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. SimakIf 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. SimakIf 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.
Clifford D. SimakHere lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
Clifford D. Simak