Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer noted primarily for the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.
He also for his often co...
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. Fred Hoyle
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
An outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. Fred Hoyle
An outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.
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. Fred Hoyle
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.
It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God. Fred Hoyle
It is, therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligence -even to the limit of God.
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate. Fred Hoyle
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect deliberate.
The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today. Fred Hoyle
The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.
Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. Fred Hoyle
Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe.
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia. Fred Hoyle
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia.
What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness. Fred Hoyle
What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.
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. Fred Hoyle
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.
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. Fred Hoyle
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.
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics. Fred Hoyle
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.