We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth,… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. [Referring to the trouble he… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share
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