'To 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.'

'I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.'

'During Alfven's visit he gave a lecture at the University of Chicago, which was attended by Enrico Fermi. As Alfven described his work, Fermi nodded his head …

'The difference between myth and science is the difference between divine inspiration of `unaided reason' on the one hand and theories developed in observation…

Many people would claim that the boundary conditions are not part of physics but belong to metaphysics or religion. They would claim that nature had complete f…

'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 c…

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever…