Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research. — 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 attractive solution to the energy needs of the world. ... The real issue is whether their blueprints will work in the real world and not only in a "technological paradise."... Opponents of fission energy point out… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
