Hal Clement Professions : Fiction writer Born : May 30, 1922 Died : October 29, 2003 Browse All Authors 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. Hal Clement superstitions tests speculation Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true. Hal Clement statistics wish believe Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read. Hal Clement statistics might believe 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 aberration insanity thinking No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see. Hal Clement likes What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on? Hal Clement needed use school Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf. Hal Clement novas dwarves red Similar Authors Brian Stableford fiction-writer Brian Lumley fiction-writer Brad Linaweaver fiction-writer Armin Joseph Deutsch fiction-writer Andrew Revkin fiction-writer Amy Plum fiction-writer All Authors