"Once I had learnt my twelve times table……" — Fred Hoyle

"Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way."

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38 Quotes by Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big…
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that…
The universe is a put-up job.
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no…
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the…
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado…
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it…
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it…
Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional…
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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