Occupation: Astronomer Birth: June 24, 1915 Death: August 20, 2001
Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution o….
Science is prediction, not explanation..
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, st….
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics..
Imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik's cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved fo….
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are ra….
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth a….
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a rand….
A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that t….
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think t….
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a j….
Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal toda….
I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the cle….
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury D….
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 sci….
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth..
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for..
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 c….
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example..
Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any ….
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates ….