"It is emphatically the case that life could……" — Fred Hoyle
"It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic soup ever existed on this planet. We may therefore with fairness call this scenario the myth of the pre-biotic soup."
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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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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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I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
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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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