Top 7 Quotes by Hal Clement

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.

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

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

Hal Clement

Believe, Wish, Statistics

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

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

Hal Clement

Believe, Statistics, Might

"The Nitrogen Fix".

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

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.