A Commonsense Interpretation Of The Facts Suggests

It Is Emphatically The Case That Life Could Not Arise Spontaneously In A Primeval Soup Of Any Kind.... Furthermore, No Geological Evidence Indicates An Organic Soup Ever Existed On This Planet. We May Therefore With Fairness Call This Scenario The Myth Of The Pre-biotic Soup.

Once I Had Learnt My Twelve Times Table (at The Age Of Three) It Was Downhill All The Way.

It Is A Mistake To Imagine That Potentially Great Men Are Rare. It Is The Conditions That Permit The Promise Of Greatness To Be Fulfilled That Are Rare. What Is So Difficult To Achieve Is The Cultural Background That Permits Potential Greatness To Be Converted Into Actual Greatness.

In The Popular Mind, If Hoyle Is Remembered It Is As The Prime Mover Of The Discredited Steady State Theory Of The Universe. "everybody Knows" That The Rival Big Bang Theory Won The Battle Of The Cosmologies, But Few (not Even Astronomers) Appreciate That The Mathematical Formalism Of The Now-favoured Version Of Big Bang, Called Inflation, Is Identical To Hoyle's Version Of The Steady State Model.

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.