I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our….

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

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of spac….

Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have ….

The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very….

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few….

In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the ele….

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intr….

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been r….

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

Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. An infinite….

I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from th….

I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed ….

Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems..

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago..

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..