Hannes Alfvén: Quotes about space

Hannes Alfvén was Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist. Explore interesting quotes on universe.

Hannes Alfvén: 18 quotes9 likes

“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.”

Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 196.

“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.”

Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 196.

“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.”

Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 196.