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German meteorologist and geophysicist (d. 1930), Birth: 1-11-1880
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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

We are similar to an adjudicator facing a litigant who refuses to speak, and we must discern the veracity from the circumstantial facts.
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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