Quotes by Hannes Alfvén

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The brilliance of an action derives from the degree of difficulty one has to face, in an activity or in a creative act...

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If there weren't the difficulties of knowledge, of searches, the mobilization of all personal creative capacities and inclinations to face, I think there wouldn't even be celebrity, in the sense of... absolute success, measured by its value to humanity...

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The duration of renown depends on the vastness of the acts' implication for the fate of mankind...

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The nature of the appreciated creative act, the extent to which it increasingly involves humanity, its destinies, give it durability in consciousness.

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Celebrity as an act of creation cannot exist outside of human society... The act of individual creation for society, the contribution to the real values ​​of human civilization are the basis of fame, fame, celebrity...

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Celebrity comes to constitute itself as the highest degree by which the collective accepts and rewards someone's merits, after he had them.