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“We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.”

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John D. Barrow is a renowned physicist known for his research in cosmology and the principles of cosmology. Born on November 29, 1952, he has been active in the field of theoretical physics and cosmology since the 1980s. more

“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.”

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Book:The Intelligent Universe

Source: The Intelligent Universe

“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.”

Young Regard Fellows Outrageous

Author:Fred Hoyle

“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.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”

“Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.”

Way

Author:Fred Hoyle

“Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“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.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“A superintellect has monkeyed with physics.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

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