Things Are The Way They Are Because

The Universe Is A Put-up Job.

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

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.

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.

The Likelihood Of The Formation Of Life From Inanimate Matter Is 1 To A Number With 40,000 Noughts After It (1040,000).... It Is Big Enough To Bury Darwin And The Whole Theory Of Evolution. There Was No Primeval Soup, Neither On This Planet Nor Any Other, And If The Beginnings Of Life Were Not Random, They Must Therefore Have Been The Product Of Purposeful Intelligence.