Skip to content

Accepted Quote by Fred Hoyle

“It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out,…” quote by Fred Hoyle — Download Open image

“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 a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings)

More 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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

Image

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

Image

Science is prediction, not explanation.

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…

Image

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

Image

Explore all 60 Fred Hoyle quotes

More Accepted quotes

Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the…

Image

I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and,…

Image

Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people

Image

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues…

Image

wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no…

Lucille Clifton

Image

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

Image

There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are…

Image

In Quebec City many Muslims have said that they hide their faith because they know that if they don't, if they show that they…

Image

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories…

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Image

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is]…

Image

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became…

Image

Browse all 2,006 Accepted quotes