Hal Clement Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Hal Clement

#4. I want to know why a fire glows, and why flame dust kills. I want my children or theirs ... to know what makes this radio work, ... and someday this rocket. I want to know much-more than I can learn, no doubt; but if I can start my people learning for themselves ...

Hal Clement

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

Hal Clement

#6. Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

Hal Clement

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

Hal Clement

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

Hal Clement