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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
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There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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If I were asked to define theoretical astronomy in one sentence I should say that it consists of discovering the properties of matter, partly by experiments carried out on the Earth and partly through the detailed observation of near-by space, and in then applying the results to the Universe as a whole.
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It is unlikely that stars die without a spectacular protest.
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Colonization of the galaxy is impossible because it was deliberately arranged to be so.
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Science progresses by extending the territory over which its theories hold good.
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Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution of this quite incredible Universe, we still have not the smallest clue to our own fate.
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The physicist is mainly interested in the detailed structure of the threads in our tapestry. He is less interested in the broad pattern on the tapestry itself. The broadest pattern of all, on the scale of stars and galaxies, is the business of the astronomer.
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Astronomical distances have the air of a conjuring trick. The vastness of cosmic dimensions fills us with astonishment. Yet like a conjuring trick it all looks very obvious when we see how it is done. The methods of measurement are indeed of a very mundane character.
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When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.
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The astronomer seems at first sight to be the most helpless of all scientists. He cannot experiment with the Universe. It is a significant matter of nomenclature that whereas we speak of experimental work in other sciences we speak of observational work in astronomy.
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It is a suspicious feature of the explosion theory that no obvious relics of a superdense state of the Universe can be found.
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The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always on the ball, always with it, that we should beware of.
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If anyone is resolved to find fault with it, let him first be sure he understands it.
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I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.
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To the optical astronomer, radio data serves like a good dog on a hunt.
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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.
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The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.
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If there is one important result that comes out of our inquiry into the nature of the Universe it is this: when by patient inquiry we learn the answer to any problem, we always find, both as a whole and in detail, that the answer thus revealed is finer in concept and design than anything we could ever have arrived at by a random guess.
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Think of the stars as ordinary household specks of dust. Then we must think of a galaxy as a collection of specks a few miles apart from each other, the whole distribution filling a volume about equal to the Earth. Evidently one such collection of specks could pass almost freely through another.
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With so many possible planetary systems, should we not expect inhabited planets to be moving around some of the nearby stars? We certainly should.
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From the standpoint of biology, our presence on the Earth depends on a remarkable and even fantastic sequence of chemical processes. From the standpoint of physics, the very material of which we are constituted has experienced an evolution scarcely less remarkable.
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I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.
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Religion is but a desperate attempt to find an escape from the truly dreadful situation in which we find ourselves. Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. No wonder then that many people feel the need for some belief that gives them a sense of security, and no wonder that they become very angry with people like me who say that this is illusory.
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The nation that neglects creative thought today will assuredly have its nose ground into the dust of tomorrow.
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Born:
June 24, 1915
Died:
August 20, 2001
(aged 86)
Bio:
Sir Fred Hoyle was a British astronomer and science fiction author.
Known for:
The Black Cloud (1957)
Evolution from Space (1981)
October the First Is Too Late (1966)
Fifth Planet (1963)
Ossian's Ride (1959)
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