A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Physics.

The Man Who Voyages Strange Seas Must Of Necessity Be A Little Unsure Of Himself. It Is The Man With The Flashy Air Of Knowing Everything, Who Is Always With It, That We Should Beware Of.

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.

I Am Genuinely Sorry For Scientists Of The Younger Generation Who Never Knew Fisher Personally. So Long As You Avoided A Handful Of Subjects Like Inverse Probability That Would Turn Fisher In The Briefest Possible Moment From Extreme Urbanity Into A Boiling Cauldron Of Wrath, You Got By With Little Worse Than A Thick Head From The Port Which He, Like The Cambridge Mathematician J. E. Littlewood, Loved To Drink In The Evening. And On The Credit Side You Gained A Cherished Memory Of English Spoken In A Shakespearean Style And Delivered In The Manner Of A Spanish Grandee.

Science Is Prediction, Not Explanation.

It Is Emphatically The Case That Life Could Not Arise Spontaneously In A Primeval Soup Of Any Kind.... Furthermore, No Geological Evidence Indicates An Organic Soup Ever Existed On This Planet. We May Therefore With Fairness Call This Scenario The Myth Of The Pre-biotic Soup.