Words Are Like Harpoons. Once

Once I Had Learnt My Twelve Times Table (at The Age Of Three) It Was Downhill All The Way.

Not Far From The Meeting's Venue, At One Of The Famed Observatory Club Tea Meetings, Fred Once Started A Talk By Saying, 'oh, Ooh, Basically A Star Is A Pretty Simple Thing.' And From The Back Of The Room Was Heard The Voice Of R. O. Redman, Saying, 'well, Fred, You'd Look Pretty Simple Too, From Ten Parsecs!

One [idea] Was That The Universe Started Its Life A Finite Time Ago In A Single Huge Explosion, And That The Present Expansion Is A Relic Of The Violence Of This Explosion. This Big Bang Idea Seemed To Me To Be Unsatisfactory Even Before Detailed Examination Showed That It Leads To Serious Difficulties.

The Notion That Not Only The Biopolymer But The Operating Program Of A Living Cell Could Be Arrived At By Chance In A Primordial Organic Soup Here On The Earth Is Evidently Nonsense Of A High Order.

I Don't See The Logic Of Rejecting Data Just Because They Seem Incredible.