"I don't see the logic of rejecting data……" — Fred Hoyle
"I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible."
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Fred Hoyle
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38 Quotes by Fred Hoyle
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Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big…
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One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that…
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The universe is a put-up job.
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It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no…
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Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the…
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The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado…
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It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
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Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it…
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The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it…
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Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional…
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There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to…
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More Data Quotes
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was…
— Michele Bachmann
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from…
— Roseanne Barr
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide…
— David Boies
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you…
— Edward de Bono
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
— Thomas Carlyle
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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
— Vinton Cerf
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Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification.…
— Bob Dole
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The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.
— Unknown Author
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