Fred Hoyle Quotes

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• It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The…
• A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.
• The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.
• In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.
• Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved…
• It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than…
• On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described…
• The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature…
• Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful…
• Science is prediction, not explanation.
• 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 forces…
• It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled…
• He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.
• Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this…
• Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a…
• Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
• A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are…
• There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

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