Don't Wait For Extraordinary Circumstance To Do

Nothing Is Less Predictable Than The Development Of An Active Scientific Field.

[in Plotting Earthquake Measurements] The Range Between The Largest And Smallest Magnitudes Seemed Unmanageably Large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg Then Made The Natural Suggestion To Plot The Amplitudes Logarithmically.

The Rose Does Not Bloom Without Thorns. True, But Would That The Thorns Did Not Outlive The Rose.

The Laboratory Routine, Which Involves A Great Deal Of Measurement, Filing, And Tabulation, Is Either My Lifeline Or My Chief Handicap, I Hardly Know Which.

As Seismologists Gained More Experience From Earthquake Records, It Became Obvious That The Problem Could Not Be Reduced To A Single Peak Acceleration. In Fact, A Full Frequency Of Vibrations Occurs.