24 June: Sir Fred Hoyle Quotes

This date in 1915 saw the birth of Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer. 10 things he said:

1. 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.
2. Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
3. There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
4. 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 with it, that we should beware of.
5. The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
6. Science is prediction, not explanation.
7. the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.
8. A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.
9. Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.
10. It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

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