"It is the true nature of mankind to……" — Fred Hoyle
"It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example."
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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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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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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that…
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of…
— Hosea Ballou
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman…
— Dave Barry
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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to…
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood…
— Joe Barton
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The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
— Bob Beauprez
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