Fred Hoyle

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.”

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

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