Chance Quotes by Fred Hoyle

“Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all…

— Fred Hoyle

One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is…

— Fred Hoyle

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind…

— Fred Hoyle

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been…

— Fred Hoyle

Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh,…

— Fred Hoyle

Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of…

— Fred Hoyle

Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating,…

— Fred Hoyle

In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody…

— Fred Hoyle

“I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.”

— Fred Hoyle

Science is prediction, not explanation.

— Fred Hoyle

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point…

— Fred Hoyle

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular…

— Fred Hoyle

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

— Fred Hoyle

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

— Fred Hoyle

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial…

— Fred Hoyle