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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)
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.
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