Words Are Like Harpoons. Once They Go

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.

Not Far From The Meeting's Venue, At One Of The Famed Observatory Club Tea Meetings, Fred Once Started A Talk By Saying, 'oh, Ooh, Basically A Star Is A Pretty Simple Thing.' And From The Back Of The Room Was Heard The Voice Of R. O. Redman, Saying, 'well, Fred, You'd Look Pretty Simple Too, From Ten Parsecs!

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.

Some Super-calculating Intellect Must Have Designed The Properties Of The Carbon Atom, Otherwise The Chance Of My Finding Such An Atom Through The Blind Forces Of Nature Would Be Utterly Minuscule.

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.