“The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.”

— Hannes Alfvén

Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 197.

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Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist 1908–1995

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“Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.”

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Address Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States — Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles (15 July 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx
1960
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