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)
Quotations by:
Hoyle, Fred
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)
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)
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)