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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…

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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have…
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from…
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology,…
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion…
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has…
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that…
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.
The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe…
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into…

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We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion… — Hannes Alfven
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries. — Alexander Hamilton
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. — Philip K. Dick
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and… — V.S. Naipaul
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,… — Plato
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to… — Alistair Cooke
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken… — Henry James Sumner Maine
Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in… — Bill Richardson

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