"The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence."

-- Fred Hoyle

#Numbers Quotes #Soup Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.”
“True love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas Spirit.”
“What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.”
“Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.”
“Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.”
“I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but Iâ€™ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. Iâ€™ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.”
“Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1968). “Van Wyck Brooks: the early years: a selection from his works, 1908-1921”
“Order is the key to all problems.”

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