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.

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

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

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

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

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

[H]e was still young enough to think that there was something fundamentally inhuman about thinking more than one step ahead at a time.