Don't Wait For Extraordinary Circumstance To Do

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.

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.

[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.

Refining Is Inevitable In Science When You Have Made Measurements Of A Phenomenon For A Long Period Of Time.

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.