Reviews for A Journey with Fred Hoyle: The Search for Cosmic Life

The average rating for A Journey with Fred Hoyle: The Search for Cosmic Life based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-06-03 00:00:00 Deborah Mctiernan It's probably important for someone as iconoclastic and querulous as Hoyle to have a champion, even one as unobjective as Wickramasinge. Hoyle was probably deserving of a Nobel prize, and his ideas are fruitful, which is the best sort of idea, even if from a nonsciency POV they are "wrong." Wickramasinge has some compelling ideas of his own, and his experience fleshes out what could have been a sad story of injustice and animus. Anyway, I enjoyed this portrait of a man whose ideas lit my imagination as a kid. If nothing else, I learned to question everything, even at personal cost. A valuable lesson, though an expensive scruple.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-19 00:00:00 Ted Brydges For those familiar with Fred Hoyle and his intriguing work, this very detailed and readable book will make a fine addition to the bookcase. It does however, require firm attention to understand fully some of the descriptive passages, but rewards clear concentration. Although cosmology and recent astronomical research have moved on and beyond the scope of Hoyle`s work, this nevertheless provides keen insight into an important part of the journey.