Best 6 quotes of Hal Clement on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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