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

Source : 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

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“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”

“Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.”

“Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.”

“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”

“In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.”

“Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.”

Source : "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2001.

“Who does not grow, declines.”

“All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.”

“It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.”