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"In physics," he said, "we plan. We plan months ahead, years ahead... You astronomers don't plan, you rush around like a chicken without a head. Observe and observe and observe and all shall be revealed unto you."

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Be suspicious of a theory if more and more hypotheses are needed to support it as new facts become available, or as new considerations are brought to bear.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Geoffrey Hoyle

Geoffrey Hoyle

Born: 1942 (age 83)
Bio: Geoffrey Hoyle is an English science fiction writer, best known for the works which he co-wrote with his father, the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works were co-written with his son.
Known for:
  1. Fifth Planet (1963)
  2. Rockets in Ursa Major (1969)
  3. Into Deepest Space (1974)
  4. Seven Steps to the Sun (1970)
  5. The Incandescent Ones (1977)

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