#earth

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#distorts #earthly #false #gods #laughed

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have. ↗

— Jeff Rich

#live #want #you

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. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#compare #correction #distance #earthquakes #i

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

— Charles Francis Richter

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What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. ↗

— Sally Ride

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The view of Earth is spectacular. ↗

— Sally Ride

#spectacular #view

The earth is a great big orphanage for most animals. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#earth #great #most #orphanage

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#agreed #been #call #deeper #divine