Quotes by Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Common Sense

If There Is A God

Science

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.

If There Is A God

Numbers

Science

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.

Blow

Pieces

Yards

A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Physics

Earlier theories … were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the “big bang” expression.]

Expression

Past

Science

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

Conformity

Dog

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

Clue

Fantastic

Real

Hoyle’s enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.

Achievement

Century

Stars

I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.

Memories

Sorry

Wrath

I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon…Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

Believe

Financial

Moon

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Boeing 747

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Clue

Common Sense

Conformity

Creation

Curious

Data

Differences

Doe

Dog

Earth

Editors

Effort

Emotional

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Explanation

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Quotes by Fred Hoyle

Fred Hoyle

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Earlier theories … were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the “big bang” expression.]

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

Hoyle’s enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.

I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon…Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

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