Hannes Alfven Quotes
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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.
If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.
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.
