Hannes Alfvén

1908–1995 · Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1

Topics: learning

• The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.

  — Hannes Alfvén

• 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

• 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 Alfvén