Bertrand Russell Earthquakes Quotations

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.