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"Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
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"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil."
"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
"It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it."
"I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
"I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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.'"
"My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star."
"Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time."
"I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance."
"If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity."
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