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"I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit."
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"Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them."
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"It is one thing to believe and another to know."
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"Forget the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Granth Sahib, and all the scriptures in the world. None of them will show you the Great Eternal Truth. None of them will show you the Kingdom of God, for the real Kingdom of the Ultimate Truth is inside your mind. It was born in you when you were born. And it will cease to exist when you die. Your mind is not merely the vehicle of God, rather it is the life-force that keeps God alive. Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
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"Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist."
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"The human mind has a primordial affinity towards ideas of miracles and mysticism, especially, in times of weakness."
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"If no war in heaven, then defeat ain't misery."
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"If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one"probably a child"who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home."
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"Fear uncovers the impossible, while faith reveals the possible."
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"I acknowledge the challenge of believing in a supernatural divinity. After all, in the natural a rock is a rock; a desk is a desk; my skin is my skin. Or are they? That rock you pick up and feel on your skin and place on the desk is 99.9% empty space-between atoms; as is your skin and the desk. So, perhaps it is our perception of the natural or "real world that needs tweaking, not the supernatural."
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"The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists, indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately."
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"There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'"
Will
"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
"I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit."
Belief
"For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum."
Energy
"If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used."
Body
"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
"Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
Devil
"Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time."
Science
"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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