Tim Helton

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

“It isn't the Universe that's following our logic, it's we that are constructed in accordance with the logic of the Universe. And that gives what I might call a definition of intelligent life: something that reflects the basic structure of the Universe.”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly miniscule 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 intelligences ... even to the limit of God ... such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.”
― Fred Hoyle, Evolution from Space: A Theory of Cosmic Creationism

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