"Science is prediction, not explanation." — Fred Hoyle
"Science is prediction, not explanation."
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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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I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in…
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about…
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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank…
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who…
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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They…
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything…
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I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a…
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