Alfred Wegener Quotes

• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  Alfred Wegener

  Truth, Judging, Judgement

  Alfred Wegener (1966). “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.

  Alfred Wegener

  Opposites, Facts, Viewpoints

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