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

- Fred Hoyle

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

- Fred Hoyle

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

- Fred Hoyle

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

- Fred Hoyle

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

- Fred Hoyle

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

- Fred Hoyle