Hannes Alfven

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present read more

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.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on read more

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.

I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma read more

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.

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. read more

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.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.