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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
~ Charles Darwin
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
~ Charles Darwin
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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
~ Charles Darwin
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
~ Charles Darwin
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Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
~ Charles Davenport
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This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.
~ Charles Davenport
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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.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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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.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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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.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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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.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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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.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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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.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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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.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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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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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.
~ Charles Francis Richter
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