Alfven Quotes

#1. I realize the selfishness of children. We love them, and we revolve around their universe, but they don't revolve around ours.

Brunonia Barry

#2. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

C.S. Lewis

#3. Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

Moby

#4. 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.

Hannes Alfven

#5. The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.

Pliny The Younger

#6. To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Hannes Alfven

#7. Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful.

Marie Lu

#8. Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. 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.

Hannes Alfven

#10. Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#11. How swift, the slippage from keeping it together to losing it.

Lauren Groff

#12. 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.

Hannes Alfven

#13. Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

Hannes Alfven

#14. But there was something terrifying taking over her thoughts, and it wouldn't leave. Out of seven billion sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one of them knew that she was lost. Not one of them asked.

Amy Zhang

#15. 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.

Hannes Alfven

#16. 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.

Hannes Alfven

#17. Like Santa's elves," Percy said. "Except evil. And metal. And really loud.

Rick Riordan

#18. 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.

Hannes Alfven

#19. I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

Diana Gabaldon

#20. Yet my sadness is a comfort For it is natural and right And is what should fill the soul Whenever it thinks it exists

Fernando Pessoa

#21. Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

Bruce Lee

#22. My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all.

Greg Kinnear

#23. [Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.

John Milton

#24. 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