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Seismologist Inspirational Quotes (29)

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There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.
Charles Francis Richter
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My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.
Charles Francis Richter
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We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk about mathematics!
Harold Jeffreys
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Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
Charles Francis Richter
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What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.
Cargill Gilston Knott
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You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.
Frank Press
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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
C. F. Powell
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[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.
Charles Francis Richter
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You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.
Inge Lehmann
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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.
Charles Francis Richter
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All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.
Harold Jeffreys
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I have a sense of humor but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
Charles Francis Richter
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The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.
Cargill Gilston Knott
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For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.
Frank Press
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No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
Charles Francis Richter
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Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.
Cargill Gilston Knott
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It's a difficult question of relations between people.
Frank Press
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A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.
Harold Jeffreys
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How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.
C. F. Powell
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Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
Charles Francis Richter
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My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.
Frank Press
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Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.
Charles Francis Richter
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Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.
Harold Jeffreys
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Francis Richter
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