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Originally Posted by Coldcreation
Fred Hoyle was cool.
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Cool?
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Hoyle was almost obsessive in his questioning of orthodoxy. Sometimes he turned out to be right, but on many occasions he showed himself as a scientist out of his depth. -- Singh (2004)
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The best astronomers would not agree with many of his conclusions. Hoyle has not the humility of a good scientist. -- Sydney Goldstein, professor of applied mathematics at Manchester
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Together with Geoffrey Burbidge, Hoyle worked on a detailed paper that examined whether or not the evidence pointed to quasars being at great distances or comparatively nearby... In the case of local quasars, they proposed that these objects had been expelled at extremely high speeds from the cores of disturbed galaxies. This opened the interesting possibility that some of the ejected quasars could be directed toward the Milky Way, in which case they would show a blueshift... No blueshifted quasars were found... -- Mitton (2005)
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Hoyle made some significant contributions to the field, but I think if you were counting, you would find that he was more often just flat out wrong than correct in his views.