Magnitudes Quotes

9 quotes by 7 authors

• Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may… — Arthur Balfour
• [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… — Charles Francis Richter
• I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
• We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one… — Voltaire
• Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses… — Charles Francis Richter
• Formula creation is magnitudes harder for computer algorithms than actually executing within a formula. But once the genre is created and the formula is known,… — Philip M. Parker
• This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being… — Charles Francis Richter
• If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it. — George A. Smith

Who Wrote These Magnitudes Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 9 Magnitudes Quotes as follows:

• 3 Magnitudes Quotes by Charles Francis Richter
• 1 Magnitudes Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 1 Magnitudes Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss
• 1 Magnitudes Quote by Voltaire
• 1 Magnitudes Quote by Philip M. Parker
• 1 Magnitudes Quote by George A. Smith
• 1 Magnitudes Quote by Arthur Balfour