Charles Francis Richter Quotes

By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.

Charles Francis Richter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1900 - September 30, 1985

Topics

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My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

Jimmy Carter

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I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.

Andrew Luck

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These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.

Meg Wolitzer

WomenPowerTimeWritingWorldYou

I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate.

John Jay Hooker

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I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.

Matthew Sweet

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Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.

Michael Dickinson

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There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Stefan Zweig

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A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Mary Wesley

PeopleShortDieStopBoringBecome

Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.

Mary Ellen Mark

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Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

Lucy Liu

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From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

Donny Robinson

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I had to get healthy for a period in my life, so I learned a lot about food and diet.

Cobie Smulders

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