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• According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects…
• Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
• I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh…
• Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar…
• Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
• Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other…
• The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played…
• [In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural…
• Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
• If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
• In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very…
• As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak…

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