Astronomy Quote by Anonymous

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths…

— Charles Francis Richter

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different…

— Charles Francis Richter

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

— Lewis Carroll

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the…

— Charles Francis Richter

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

— Thomas Paine

One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small,…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.”

— Robert Burnham

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost…

— Carl Sagan

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I would not be able to define my star power as I do not know what that is.

— Katrina Kaif

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers…

— Charles Francis Richter