All his life Hoyle has been a daring theorist. Theories of ether-borne disease, theories of our origins. Now Hoyle tells us that everywhere he looks, he sees purpose in the universe. The first new tenet of modern science, as it parted company with medieval alchemy, was that nature is blind and purposeless. But then, Hoyle notes, science locks itself into its own belief systems.
Science established is science fenced in.
So we're back to the French Academy. Faraday's, Pasteur's and Curie's greatness was authentic, and it's prevailed. National Academies can neither determine nor predict that. Hoyle is now old and he is content. He's reached a point where he can smile and remind us that real science has to be revolution.