Hannes Alfvén: Today

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

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.

“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.”

Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 192.

“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.