"Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in……" — 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 have anything at all on astronomy."
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Hannes Alfven
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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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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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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…
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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