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It is in the world of ideas a...

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

The main efforts of investiga...

The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

The chance that higher life f...

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.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

Imagine 1050 blind persons ea...

Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have a chance of arriving by random shuffling, of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

It seems to be a characterist...

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

Space isn't remote at all. It...

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if
your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

There is a coherent plan to th...

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know
what it's a plan for.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

Technology is a way of organiz...

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

I don't see the logic of rejec...

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

A commonsense interpretation o...

A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

A junkyard contains all the bi...

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

When I was young, the old rega...

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

The notion that not only the b...

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

The suggestion that petroleum ...

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

I had motives for not wanting ...

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with o

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

Things are the way they are be...

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

Once I had learnt my twelve ti...

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

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

The man who voyages strange se...

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

It is in the world of ideas an...

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

A superintellect has monkeyed ...

A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Fred Hoyle 58 quotes

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