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In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

The universe is a put-up job.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.

The establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

The big bang theory requires a recent origin of the Universe that openly invites the concept of creation.

He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

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.

Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.