Buckets of Diamonds and Other Stories Quotes

“Dr. Charles H. Carter knew he had done a good job. The book was a little dogmatic here and there, perhaps, a little anxious to prove his hypothesis—but after a man had dug and burrowed in the midden heaps of Mars for over twenty years he had a right to be a bit dogmatic. He picked up the last page of the manuscript and read it over again: There is, I am convinced, good reason to believe the Martian race may not be extinct, although”
― Clifford D. Simak, Buckets of Diamonds and Other Stories

“David bent above the table and the answer was upon the tape: The universe has no purpose. The universe just happened. “And the second question . . .” said Jed, but there was no need for him to finish, for what the question had been was implicit in the wording of the second tape: Life has no significance. Life is an accident. “And that,” said Jed, “is the Truth we found. That is why we are a simple people.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Buckets of Diamonds and Other Stories

“Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge.”
― Clifford D. Simak, Buckets of Diamonds and Other Stories