Quote #9
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.
More from Fred Hoyle
- There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
- Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century as…
- 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…
- I do not see any sense in continuing to skirmish on a battlefield where I can never hope to win. The Cambridge system is effectively design…
- The creationist is a sham religious person who, curiously, has no true sense of religion. In the language of religion, it is the facts we o…
- A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. Wha…
- Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
- We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates o…