Hannes Alfven Quotes

#1. I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

David H. Koch

#2. The ability to share the Gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.

Clayton Christensen

#3. 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

#4. The most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#5. The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

James Baldwin

#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. And like the messed up dude in that novel, I just want to live forever as long as it's with you.

A Meredith Walters

#8. 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

#9. Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

Wendy Kopp

#10. 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

#11. The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Osler

#12. It was more about understanding that you could give it your all, give yourself the best chances, but control is an illusion.

Harlan Coben

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#17. It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

Daniel Ellsberg

#18. I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

George Clooney

#19. 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

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

Hannes Alfven