Fred Hoyle Quotes

Once A Photograph Of The Earth, Taken From Outside, Is Available, We Shall, In An Emotional Sense, Acquire An Additional Dimension.

I Don't See The Logic Of Rejecting Data Just Because They Seem Incredible.

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.

He Who Lives Among Dogs Must Learn To Pant.

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.

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.]

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.

Outstanding Examples Of Genius - A Mozart, A Shakespeare, Or A Carl Friedrich Gauss - Are Markers On The Path Along Which Our Species Appears Destined To Tread.

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 Don't See The Logic Of Rejecting Data Just Because They Seem Incredible ... The Establishment Defends Itself By Complicating Everything To The Point Of Incomprehensibility.

There Are Many Ways Of Knocking Electrons Out Of Atoms. The Simplest Is To Rub Two Surfaces Together.

It Is No More Likely That Our World Has Evolved Out Of Chaos Than That A Hurricane, Blowing Through A Junk Yard, Should Create A Boeing.