BBC radio broadcast, March 28, 1949. http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/hoyle/exhibition/radio/ Reprinted in April 1949 in The Listener, a BBC magazine.
Famous Fred Hoyle Quotes
Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1981)
“Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
"Sayings of the Week", The Observer (9 September 1979)
Quoted in "The Olduvai Theory: Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age" by Richard C. Duncan http://dieoff.org/page125.htm
Originally from Fred Hoyle, Of Men and Galaxies (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964).
Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1981), pp. 141, 144, 130
The Big Bang in Astronomy, New Scientist, Vol. 92, No. 1280 (November 19, 1981), p. 527
Fred Hoyle Quotes about space
Arguing that living organisms could not have arisen by chance alone.
The Intelligent Universe (1983), p. 19
“There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.”
Attributed in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) edited by Elizabeth Knowles and Angela Partington
Fred Hoyle Quotes about reason
As quoted by Bernard Lovell in Hoyle's obituary in The Guardian (23 August 2001) http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,540961,00.html
Our Place in the Cosmos (1993), p. 14
1948
Fred Hoyle Quotes
Hoyle on evolution, Nature, Vol. 294, No. 5837 (November 12, 1981), p. 105
Galaxies, Nuclei, and Quasars, Harper and Row, New York, 1965
Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe (1978), p. 15
As quoted in Scientific American (March 1995)
The Small World of Fred Hoyle: an Autobiography (1986)
Home Is Where the Wind Blows: Chapters from a Cosmologist's Life (1994) p. 235.