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Eugene Parker

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[Wikipedia] Eugene Newman Parker was an American solar and plasma physicist, often called the "father" and "founder" of heliophysics. In 1958, he proposed the existence of the solar wind and predicted that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral—predictions initiall

Quotes by Eugene Parker

Whenever you have a good idea, it's inevitable some people will criticize it and deny it. Some people will try to prove…

Good

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The solar probe is going to a region of space that has never been explored before. It's very exciting that we'll finally…

Look

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I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the…

Curiosity

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Space, the whole universe - I know no better place to find new physics.

Better place

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The tail of the comet always points straight away from the sun, in antisolar direction. Sometimes the tail trails behind, but sometimes…

Direction

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I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

Learning

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I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

Always

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The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

Physics

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One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an…

Energy

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