Hal Clement Quotes

• Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

  Hal Clement

  Tests, Superstitions, Speculation

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• Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.

  Hal Clement

  Believe, Wish, Statistics

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• Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

  Hal Clement

  Believe, Statistics, Might

  "The Nitrogen Fix".

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• What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

  Hal Clement

  School, Use, Needed

  Hal Clement (2002). “Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories”, p.125, Macmillan

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• The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.

  Hal Clement

  Thinking, Insanity, Aberration

  "Mission of Gravity" by Hal Clement, (Ch. 9), 1954.

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• No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.

  Hal Clement

  Likes

  Hal Clement (2002). “Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories”, p.99, Macmillan

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• Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.

  Hal Clement

  Dwarves, Red, Novas

  Hal Clement (2002). “Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories”, p.133, Macmillan

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