Fred Hoyle

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

― Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

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

― Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

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“It isn't the Universe that's following our logic, it's we that are constructed in accordance with the logic of the Universe. And that gives what I might call a definition of intelligent life: something that reflects the basic structure of the Universe.”

― Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

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

― Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

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"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 (1915-2001)

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"Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down."

― Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

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"It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example."

― Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)

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"Science is prediction, not explanation."

― Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)