Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal: Interview with the author on September 19, 2011. See also Rees 2001.

“The problem with the scientific”: Hoyle 1994, p. 328.

“From my very youth I despised”: Cited, eg, in Boorstin 1983, p. 345.

Biologist Richard Dawkins labeled: Hoyle’s original argument was against abiogenesis—the theory for the origin of life on Earth—not against Darwin’s theory of evolution. Dawkins expands on the discussion of Hoyle’s fallacy in Dawkins 2006.

Denial seldom evokes sympathy: Kathryn Schulz gives a fascinating discussion of the sentiments involved in being wrong in Schulz 2010.