In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

In the 1970s and 1980s Gold was a vocal critic of NASA's Space Shuttle program deriding claims that the agency could fly 50 missions a year or that it could have low budget costs. I was certainly regarded as persona non grata with NASA after that. (1962) "The Arrow of Time" American Journal of Physics 30 (6): 403–410 Bibcode:1962AmJPh.

Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady state' hypothesis of the universe. S.