Fred Hoyle Quotes About Astronomy

Quotes about: Astronomy

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

  Fred Hoyle

  Inspirational, Funny, Space

  1979 Quoted in the Observer,'Sayings of the Week', 9 Sep.

• On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms. . . . On philosophical grounds too I cannot see any good reason for preferring the big bang idea. Indeed it seems to me in the philosophical sense to be a distinctly unsatisfactory notion, since it puts the basic assumption out of sight where it can never be challenged by a direct appeal to observation.

  Fred Hoyle

  Philosophical, Sight, Ideas

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

• I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

  Fred Hoyle

  Believe, Moon, Financial

  "Galaxies, Nuclei, and Quasars". Book by Fred Hoyle, 1965.

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