Fred Hoyle

“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 random trial is only one part in 10^40,000.”

“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature.”

“I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.”

“The Big Bang theory is an irrational process that cannot be described in scientific terms.”

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

“It is a mistake to imagine that science consists of nothing but empirically verifiable statements.”

“If one proceeds directly and straightforwardly in this matter... one arrives at the conclusion that biomaterials with their amazing measure of order must be the outcome of intelligent design.”

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

“The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial soup here on Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.”

“Once we see that life is cosmic it is sensible to suppose that intelligence is cosmic.”

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

“The problem for those who assert that life arose spontaneously from matter is that they must explain how the information got into the matter.”