Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Eugene Parker

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Eugene Parker.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Eugene Newman Parker was an American solar physicist and plasma physicist. In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral, predictions that were later confirmed by spacecraft measurements. In 1987, Parker proposed the existence of nanoflares, a leading candidate to explain the coronal heating problem.

American - Scientist | Born: June 10, 1927

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The solar probe is going to a region of space that has never been explored before. It's very exciting that we'll finally get a look. One would like to have some more detailed measurements of what's going on in the solar wind. I'm sure that there will be some surprises. There always are.

Eugene Parker

Whenever you have a good idea, it's inevitable some people will criticize it and deny it. Some people will try to prove it's wrong.

Eugene Parker

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

Eugene Parker

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

Eugene Parker

I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint.

Eugene Parker

One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical.

Eugene Parker

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

Eugene Parker

Space, the whole universe - I know no better place to find new physics.

Eugene Parker

The tail of the comet always points straight away from the sun, in antisolar direction. Sometimes the tail trails behind, but sometimes it's perpendicular, and sometimes it's ahead of the comet like a headlight on a railroad locomotive.

Eugene Parker

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Eugene Parker

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