I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

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.

Spring makes everything young again except man.

The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

It is a common remark that men talk most who think least; just as frogs cease their quacking when a light is brought to the water-side.

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 would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.