Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

[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.

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

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