Alfven Quotes

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

Hannes Alfven

#2. 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

#3. [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

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

Greg Kinnear

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

Bruce Lee

#6. 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

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

Diana Gabaldon

#8. 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

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

Rick Riordan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Brunonia Barry

#14. 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

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

Lauren Groff

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Marie Lu

#20. 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

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

Pliny The Younger

#22. 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

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

Moby

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

C.S. Lewis