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Hannes Alfven Quotes
«There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.»
Author: Hannes Alfven
«The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world - what perfect principles must have been used.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Hannes Alfven
«Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.»
Author: 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 science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.»
Author: 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, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.»
Author: Hannes Alfven
«I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.»
Author: 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 way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Hannes Alfven
«The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.»
Author: Hannes Alfven