"Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical……" — Hannes Alfven
"Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems."
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15 Quotes by Hannes Alfven
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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of…
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I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma…
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section…
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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…
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We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today.…
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to…
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Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely…
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It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion…
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The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be…
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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely…
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present…
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More Ashes Quotes
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
— Anne Baxter
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
— George W. Bush
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
— Tennessee Williams
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
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