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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…
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I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from…
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology,…
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I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
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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…
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has…
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that…
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Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,…
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It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.
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The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe…
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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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