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Hal Clement Quotes

1922–2003 United States

Hal Clement (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003) was an American science fiction author.

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Science fiction authors
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Random Hal Clement quote

7 quotes

It seems that these men are primitive enough to have a marked tendency toward superstition—ascribing things they don’t understand to supernatural intervention.

Assumption Unjustified (1946)

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

Mission of Gravity (1954)

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

Mission of Gravity (1954)

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

Mission of Gravity (1954)

I am resigned to living in a chess-type universe—few and simple rules, but infinite combinations of them. But it would be nice to know an answer sometime.

Hot Planet (1963)

If you want adventure, you made a mistake exploring space. The only space adventures I've heard of are second-hand stories built on guesswork; the people who really had them weren't around to tell about it.

Hot Planet (1963)

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.

Mission of Gravity (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hal Clement (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.