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.Collection: Tests
Human beings are prone to believe the things they wish were true.Collection: Believe
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.Collection: Believe
What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?Collection: School
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.Collection: Thinking
No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.Collection: Likes
Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.Collection: Dwarves