Fred Hoyle Quotes

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Science progresses by extending the territory over which its theories hold good.

Fred Hoyle
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.

Fred Hoyle
Only the biological processes of mutation and natural selection are needed to produce living creatures as we know them. Such creatures are no more than ingenious machines that have evolved as strange by-products in an odd corner of the Universe.

Fred Hoyle
Without continuous creation, the Universe must evolve toward a dead state in which all the matter is condensed into a vast number of dead stars.

Fred Hoyle
The nation that neglects creative thought today will assuredly have its nose ground into the dust of tomorrow.

Fred Hoyle
Colonization of the galaxy is impossible because it was deliberately arranged to be so.

Fred Hoyle
I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon... Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

Fred Hoyle
If anyone is resolved to find fault with it, let him first be sure he understands it.

Fred Hoyle
No literary genius could have harvested a story one-hundredth part as fantastic as the sober facts that have been unearthed by astronomical science.

Fred Hoyle