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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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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. [Realizing that his plasma universe may take a long time to penetrate the popular consciousness. When addressing a number of physicists with the first half of the quote, the groups was at first incredulous, but nodded agreement upon hearing the remainder of the quote. ]

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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

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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.

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Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

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If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.

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