“It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.”

— Fred Hoyle

Frontiers of Astronomy (1955), p. 1

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British astronomer 1915–2001

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