WIST Quotations

Hoyle, Fred -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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) English astronomer, author
(Attributed)

Quoted in "Sayings of the Week", The Observer (9 Sep 1979)

Hoyle, Fred -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) English astronomer, author
(Attributed)

Hoyle, Fred -- Our Place in the Cosmos (1993)

Dave — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:17:47 +0000

The creationist is a sham religious person who, curiously, has no true sense of religion. In the language of religion, it is the facts we observe in the world around us that must be seen to constitute the words of God. Documents, whether the Bible, Qur’an or those writings that held such force for Velikovsky, are only the words of men. To prefer the words of men to those of God is what one can mean by blasphemy. This, we think, is the instinctive point of view of most scientists who, curiously again, have a deeper understanding of the real nature of religion than have the many who delude themselves into a frenzied belief in the words, often the meaningless words, of men. Indeed, the lesser the meaning, the greater the frenzy, in something like inverse proportion.

Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) English astronomer, author
Our Place in the Cosmos (1993)

Hoyle, Fred -- In Scientific American (Mar 1995)

Dave — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:37:13 +0000

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 (1915-2001) English astronomer, author
In Scientific American (Mar 1995)

Hoyle, Fred -- Quoted in the London Observer (1979-09-09) “Sayings of the Week”

Dave — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:54:10 +0000

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

Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) English astronomer, author
Quoted in the London Observer (1979-09-09) “Sayings of the Week”
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