Fred Hoyle Quotes

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

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 rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

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

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