Spring makes everything young again except man.

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.

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.

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.

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.