It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.
Georges CuvierAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: french
- Born: August 23, 1769
- Died: May 13, 1832
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