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.

The Most Remarkable Feature About The Magnitude Scale Was That It Worked At All And That It Could Be Extended On A Worldwide Basis. It Was Originally Envisaged As A Rather Rough-and-ready Procedure By Which We Could Grade Earthquakes. We Would Have Been Happy If We Could Have Assigned Just Three Categories, Large, Medium, And Small; The Point Is, We Wanted To Avoid Personal Judgments. It Actually Turned Out To Be Quite A Finely Tuned Scale.

Most Loss Of Life And Property Has Been Due To The Collapse Of Antiquated And Unsafe Structures, Mostly Of Brick And Other Masonry. ... There Is Progress Of California Toward Building New Construction According To Earthquake-resistant Design. We Would Have Less Reason To Ask For Earthquake Prediction If This Was Universal.

[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.