The Universe Is A Put-up Job.

It Is No More Likely That Our World Has Evolved Out Of Chaos Than That A Hurricane, Blowing Through A Junk Yard, Should Create A Boeing.

There Are Many Ways Of Knocking Electrons Out Of Atoms. The Simplest Is To Rub Two Surfaces Together.

In The Popular Mind, If Hoyle Is Remembered It Is As The Prime Mover Of The Discredited Steady State Theory Of The Universe. "everybody Knows" That The Rival Big Bang Theory Won The Battle Of The Cosmologies, But Few (not Even Astronomers) Appreciate That The Mathematical Formalism Of The Now-favoured Version Of Big Bang, Called Inflation, Is Identical To Hoyle's Version Of The Steady State Model.

The Suggestion That Petroleum Might Have Arisen From Some Transformation Of Squashed Fish Or Biological Detritus Is Surely The Silliest Notion To Have Been Entertained By Substantial Numbers Of Persons Over An Extended Period Of Time.

Once I Had Learnt My Twelve Times Table (at The Age Of Three) It Was Downhill All The Way.