Fred Hoyle > Quotes

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

“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”
― Fred Hoyle