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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.

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

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

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

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I want to know why a fire glows, and why flame dust kills. I want my children or theirs...to know what makes this radio work,...and someday this rocket. I want to know much-more than I can learn, no doubt; but if I can start my people learning for themselves...

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Hal Clement

Hal Clement

Born: May 30, 1922
Died: October 29, 2003 (aged 81)
Bio: Harry Clement Stubbs, better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under the name George Richard.
Known for:
  1. Mission of Gravity (1953)
  2. Needle (1950)
  3. Iceworld (1953)
  4. Close to Critical (1958)
  5. Heavy Planet (2002)

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