Fred Hoyle

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

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

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

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.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

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