The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.
Fred HoyleWhen 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.
Fred HoyleSpace isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Fred HoyleOutstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.
Fred HoyleOnce a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.
Fred HoyleWell, we now have such a photograph... Has any new idea been let loose? It certainly has. You will have noticed how suddenly everybody has become seriously concerned to protect the natural environment... It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.
Fred Hoyle