Hannes Alfven

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely read more

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear read more

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.

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 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.

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.