# Quote — Hal Clement, Mission Of Gravity

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

- Author: [Hal Clement](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hal-clement.md)
- Book: [Mission Of Gravity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hal-clement/mission-of-gravity.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hal_Clement#Mission_of_Gravity_(1954)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/hal-clement/mission-of-gravity/maybe-weve-been

## More from this book

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

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

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