It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Hannes AlfvenIf a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.
Hannes AlfvenTo try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes AlfvenI have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
Hannes Alfven