"I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical……" — Hannes Alfven

"I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals."

— Hannes Alfven

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…
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma…
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section…
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear…
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today.…
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to…
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely…
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion…
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…
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely…
I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present…

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