That was Wickmarasingh rather than Hoyle himself.
All I can find at the moment is what Wick said on the witness stand in [i]Epperson vs. Arkansas:
Q. Could any rational scientist believe that the earth's geology can be explained by a single catastrophe?
A. No.
Q. Could any rational scientist believe that the earth is less than one million years old?
A. No.
quoted
here
But I had a quote once.....on a now-defunct computer, of course, that I remember as being from a book H&W coauthored. Oh well.