“Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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