Fred Hoyle

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

— Fred Hoyle

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

— 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…

— Fred Hoyle

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

— 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,…

— Fred Hoyle

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

— 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…

— Fred Hoyle

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

— Fred Hoyle

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

— 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…

— Fred Hoyle

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

— 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…

— Fred Hoyle

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

— Fred Hoyle

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

— Fred Hoyle

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

— Fred Hoyle

It is no more likely that our world has evolved out of chaos than that a hurricane, blowing through a junk yard,…

— Fred Hoyle

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new…

— Fred Hoyle

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which…

— Fred Hoyle

The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.

— Fred Hoyle

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

— Fred Hoyle

Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything…

— Fred Hoyle

Well, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how…

— Fred Hoyle