Here We Are In This Wholly Fantastic

Hoyle's Enduring Insights Into Stars, Nucleosynthesis, And The Large-scale Universe Rank Among The Greatest Achievements Of 20th-century Astrophysics. Moreover, His Theories Were Unfailingly Stimulating, Even When They Proved Transient.

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 That The Favorable Properties Of Physics, On Which Life Depends, Are In Every Respect Deliberate.... It Is, Therefore, Almost Inevitable That Our Own Measure Of Intelligence Must Reflect Higher Intelligence -even To The Limit Of God.

Not Far From The Meeting's Venue, At One Of The Famed Observatory Club Tea Meetings, Fred Once Started A Talk By Saying, 'oh, Ooh, Basically A Star Is A Pretty Simple Thing.' And From The Back Of The Room Was Heard The Voice Of R. O. Redman, Saying, 'well, Fred, You'd Look Pretty Simple Too, From Ten Parsecs!

When I Was Young, The Old Regarded Me As An Outrageous Young Fellow, And Now That I'm Old The Young Regard Me As An Outrageous Old Fellow.

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 In History Will Be Let Loose.