Hannes Alfven

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

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These are some quotes by Swedish author Hannes Alfven Scientist, who lived between May 30, 1908 and April 2, 1995.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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