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…

- Fred Hoyle

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

- Fred Hoyle

A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that t…

- Fred Hoyle

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…

- Fred Hoyle

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…

- Fred Hoyle

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…

- Fred Hoyle

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…

- Fred Hoyle

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…

- Fred Hoyle

The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a j…

- Fred Hoyle