more than a half year passed: Hoyle et al. 1953.

“In a sense this was but a minor”: Hoyle 1986b, p. 449.

“In the beginning God created”: Gamow 1970, p. 127. Gamow really wanted to express his objections to the steady state theory (discussed in chapter 9) proposed by Hoyle, Bondi, and Gold, but he ended up nevertheless acknowledging Hoyle’s contribution.

“Perhaps his [Hoyle’s] most important”: Crafoord Prize 1997 press release.

In this paper, published in 1954: Hoyle 1954.