"The chance that higher life forms might have……" — Fred Hoyle
"The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein."
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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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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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