Once I Had Learnt My Twelve Times

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.

Life Cannot Have Had A Random Beginning. ... The Trouble Is That There Are About Two Thousand Enzymes, And The Chance Of Obtaining Them All In A Random Trial Is Only One Part In 10 To The 40,000 Power, An Outrageously Small Probability That Could Not Be Faced Even If The Whole Universe Consisted Of Organic Soup.

One [idea] Was That The Universe Started Its Life A Finite Time Ago In A Single Huge Explosion, And That The Present Expansion Is A Relic Of The Violence Of This Explosion. This Big Bang Idea Seemed To Me To Be Unsatisfactory Even Before Detailed Examination Showed That It Leads To Serious Difficulties.

The Main Efforts Of Investigators Have Been In Papering Over Contradictions In The Big Bang Theory, To Build Up An Idea Which Has Become Ever More Complex And Cumbersome.

A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Physics.