Losing power, utterly and completely, is the most dreadful prospect that a politician can think of. It overshadows everything else. - Fred Hoyle

However, there is one respect in which the human species has shown not the slightest originality—its excessive reproductive vigor.

You haven't very much respect for my profession, have you, Professor Kingsley?"
"Since it is you who wish for frankness, I will tell you that I have not. I regard politicians rather as I regard the instruments on the dashboard of my car. They tell me what is going on in the engine of state, but they don't control it.

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.