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Hannes Alfven

Swedish Scientist

Born: May 30, 1908

Died: Apr 2, 1995

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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. Hannes Alfven

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. Hannes Alfven

Today Science Natural Remember Discipline Losing Once Philosophy Danger Has-Been Seems Been Exist Unfortunately Much Should Aspect

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. Hannes Alfven

Today People Few Believe Every Universe Astrology Section Astronomy Perhaps Most Still Anything Newspaper Land

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. Hannes Alfven

Work Physics Universe Our Way Backward Must Uncertain More Remote Always Begin Laboratory Should Believed Present

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