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Hannes Alfven Quotes

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

Hannes Alfven

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: swedish
Birth: May 30, 1908 - April 2, 1995

Topics

Work Present Universe Physics Way

Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.

Jimmy Chin

Life Climb My Life Twice Most Once

Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.

Joe Posnanski

Sports Time Writing You Write Big

I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers - you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.

Jesse White

Skiing Feel You Look Down Jump

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Andrew Denton

Work Comedy You Hard Middle-Aged

I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.

Steve James

Life Wife I Am Enthusiasm Honored

People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There's not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he's my dad.

Spencer Grammer

Father Business People I Can Talk

I will readily confess that I'm a coffee addict.

St. Lucia

Coffee Will Confess Readily Addict

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He's got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he's got all the answers.

Steve Scalise

Attitude Back Real Answers Out Just

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Robert Conquest

Commitment Peace Think Warm Moral

I'm not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you'll pay late.

Ron White

I Am Universe Judge You Early Late

I think you go nuts when you get older.

Roy Lichtenstein

Think You Go Nuts Get Older

Children's literature is as valid an art form as any other.

Lloyd Alexander

Children Art Literature Other Form