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“Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.”
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“The chief merit of language is clearness.”
Source : Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library
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“Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.”
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“We have an intuitive sense of our duty.”
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“The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful,”
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“I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.”
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“Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.”
Source : "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 197, 1998.
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“As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.”
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“The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.”
