Chapter 5 - Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Directory
"Scientists
still do not appear to understand sufficiently that all earth sciences must
contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet in
earlier times, and that the truth of the matter can only be reached by combining
all this evidence. . . It is only by combining the information furnished by all
the earth sciences that we can hope to determine 'truth' here, that is to say,
to find the picture that sets out all the known facts in the best arrangement
and that therefore has the highest degree of probability. Further, we have to
be prepared always for the possibility that each new discovery, no matter what
science furnishes it, may modify the conclusions we draw." -Alfred Wegener The Origins of Continents and Oceans (4th edition)