Earthquakes Quote by Charles Francis Richter Download Open image “I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.” — Charles Francis Richter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Earthquakes Inspirational Knowledge Knows Running Science Walking Walks
I would try to run when I was barely learning how to walk, so I would just fall. — Cuco Copy Share Image
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell, I would die that much closer to… — Nando Parrado Copy Share Image
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail. — Muriel Strode Copy Share Image
I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails,… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Maybe we should have gone with him," he said, a few minutes after his friend was lost to sight. "Three of us would make… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine.… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
No. He says when you're dealing with any kids of supernatural beings, Gods and Devils and angels, you tend to think about them like… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since… — Naoto Kan Copy Share Image
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
