Fred Hoyle Famous Quotes



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

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


Fred Hoyle Quotations






More Famous Quotes


The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Albert Camus

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Heraclitus

"People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'"
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing."
Aquaviva

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
John Cheever

It is better to understand little than to understand a lot.
Anatole France

All's fair in love and war.
Francis Edwards

"I remember how the other kids used to say that old Mister Swenson was the meanest man in town. But I said I thought he was nice, that he just didn't know how to show it. The meanest man in town, I said, was the mean old guy who lived in the big white house. 'THAT'S MISTER SWENSON,' they said. Oh, my mistake."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Never read a book that is not a year old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself."
Assyrian Proverb