Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule 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 …. It is therefore almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect … higher intelligences … even to the limit of God … such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.


Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1981), pp. 141, 144, 130

Fred Hoyle Quotes

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think...

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think...

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think...

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think...