The Black Cloud Quotes

“It isn't the Universe that's following our logic, it's we that are constructed in accordance with the logic of the Universe. And that gives what I might call a definition of intelligent life: something that reflects the basic structure of the Universe.”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Viewed from a wholly logical point of view the bearing and rearing of children is a thoroughly unattractive proposition. To a woman it means pain and endless worry. To a man it means extra work extending over many years to support his family. So, if we were wholly logical about sex, we should probably not bother to reproduce at all. Nature takes care of this by making us utterly and wholly irrational.”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“New ideas, fragile as spring flowers, easily bruised by the tread of the multitude, may yet be cherished by the solitary wanderer.”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Damn queer," he announced. "But lots of things damn queer. Damn queer that Moon looks just same size as Sum. Damn queer that I'm here, isn't it so?”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Damn queer," he announced. "But lots of things damn queer. Damn queer that Moon looks just same size as Sun. Damn queer that I'm here, isn't it so?”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Bu konuda bariz şekilde kötü görünmeyeceklerine katılıyorum tabii. Yaptıkları her şey için iyi sebepleri olacak. Sadece çok küçük bir insan grubunun kurtarılabileceği açığa çıktığında bu şanslı insanların topluma en yararlı olanlar olması gerektiği tartışılacak ve bu tartışma kaynatılıp damıtıldığında topluma en faydalı olanların meğer siyasi kardeşlik üyeleri, mareşaller, krallar, başpiskoposlar vs. olduğu ortaya çıkacak. Bunlardan daha önemli kim var ki zaten?”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Küçücük bir dünyada büyük insanlar olarak kalmak mı istiyoruz, yoksa uçsuz bucaksız bir dünyada küçük insanlar olmak mı?”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Incompetence was Kingley's béte noire, not incompetence performed in private but incompetence paraded in public”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud

“Society today is based in its technology on thinking in terms of numbers. In its social organization, on the other hand, it is based on thinking in terms of words. It's in here that the real clash lies, between the literary mind and the mathematical mind.”
― Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud