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"Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."
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"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
"You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it."
"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
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"If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity."
"Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time."
"This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured."
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