Fred Hoyle

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5 total works indexed

1. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology

   · 1989 · cited 43,434x

2. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

   · 1956 · cited 41,871x

3. Social Identity Theory and the Organization

   · 1989 · cited 31,507x

4. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

   · 2003 · cited 29,679x

5. User Acceptance of Computer Technology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Models

   · 1989 · cited 16,080x

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• “We now come to the question of applying the observational tests to earlier theories. These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. It now turns out that... all such theories are in conflict with observational requirements.”
• “It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.”
• “Life cannot have had a random beginning … The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 1040,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.”
• “The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.”
• “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.”
• “A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”

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