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.
Clifford D. SimakWe 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. SimakThese are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
Clifford D. SimakI 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