Fred Hoyle

Think of Fred Hoyle's elegant concept of a steady state universe that is gently expanding and eternal.

Science and truth have been cast aside by our desire for controversy | Robin McKie 2011

• British astronomer Fred Hoyle found in 1952 that the processes that form carbon, the indispensable element of Earthly life, depend on an improbable coincidence.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

The astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe put forward the idea of Panspermia – that microbes from other planets could be deposited on Earth by space debris.

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At the time he was having a feud with the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, who thought Gamow's theory of the universe beginning with a cosmic explosion was nonsense and, as a joke, called it the "Big Bang."

The Inelegant Universe Jeremy Bernstein 2011

• British astronomer Fred Hoyle found in 1952 that the processes that form carbon, the indispensable element of Earthly life, depend on an improbable coincidence.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

Fred Hoyle said it more simply: “The Universe is so vast, and the lengths of time . . . are so long, that almost every conceivable type of astronomical process is still going on somewhere or other.”

A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

High school was mostly in Beeville, Texas, where he was astonishingly good at science and math, and where he read Frontiers of Astronomy by the British astronomer Fred Hoyle.

A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

Fred Hoyle said it more simply: “The Universe is so vast, and the lengths of time . . . are so long, that almost every conceivable type of astronomical process is still going on somewhere or other.”

A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

The astronomer Fred Hoyle famously remarked that nothing shook his atheism quite like the apparent "fine tuning" of the cosmos for life.

Matt J. Rossano: Would Evidence for God Mean the End of Atheism and Christianity? 2010

The astronomer Fred Hoyle famously remarked that nothing shook his atheism quite like the apparent "fine tuning" of the cosmos for life.

Matt J. Rossano: Would Evidence for God Mean the End of Atheism and Christianity? 2010