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"What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected."
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"The fact differentiates the fake."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."
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"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
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"The truth can do years of work in seconds."
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"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."
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"Science is a careful investigation."
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"I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry."
Life
"Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
Devil
"In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try to get rid of them."
Risk
"What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected."
Truth
"By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve."
Events
"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions."
Engineering
"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
Devil
"My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star."
Astronomy
"Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field."
Development
"Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point."
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