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From Quotes by Fred Hoyle
- The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard…
- It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
- The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough…
- Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension...
- The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained…
- I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find…
- 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…
- 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…
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