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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.

— Hannes Alfvén Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)

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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory.

Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)

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

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

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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.

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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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