"The universe is a put-up job." — Fred Hoyle

"The universe is a put-up job."

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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…
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.
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to…

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More Atheism Quotes

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal… — Francis Bacon
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased… — Francis Bacon
You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. — Tammy Faye Bakker
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery,… — Mikhail Bakunin
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves. — Brigitte Bardot
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey

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