Astrophysics Quote by Hannes Alfven

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

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

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

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

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

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

— Hannes Alfven

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

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

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

Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

— Hannes Alfven

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

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