Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Hal Clement

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Harry Clement Stubbs, better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under the name George Richard.

American - Writer | May 30, 1922 - October 29, 2003

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

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.

Hal Clement

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

Hal Clement

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

Hal Clement

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

Hal Clement

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

Hal Clement

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

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Hal Clement

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