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Claude J. Allègre
(31 Mar 1937 - )
French geologist and writer.
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Science Quotes by Claude J. Allègre (1 quote)
The formation of planets is like a gigantic snowball fight. The balls bounce off, break apart, or stick together, but in the end they are rolled up into one enormous ball, a planet-ball that has gathered up all the snowflakes in the surrounding area.
— Claude J. Allègre
From Stone to Star: A View of Modern Geology, trans. Deborah Kurmes van Dam (1992), 110.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
