Occupation: Astronomer Birth: June 24, 1915 Death: August 20, 2001
The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation..
Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the bl….
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards..
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….
A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that 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….
A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics..
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example..
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates ….
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 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….
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….
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for..
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….
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 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….
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….
Science is prediction, not explanation..
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….
Perhaps the most majestic feature of our whole existence is that while our intelligences are powerful enough to penetrate deeply into the evolution o….
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….