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.

Hoyle: A star is basically a pretty simple object. Voice from Audience: You'd look pretty simple too, Fred, from a distance of ten parsecs.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of de…

Wallace's error on human intellect arose from the inadequacy of his rigid selectionism, not from a failure to apply it. And his argument repays our study today…

Linus Pauling undoubtedly stands as one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century.

From a long view of the history of mankind - seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th…