Devices Quote by Charles Francis Richter Download Open image “I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.” — Charles Francis Richter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devices Devil Lucky Plot
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. — Thomas Koenig Copy Share Image
That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head. — William Landay Copy Share Image
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I fear that I will always be, A lonely number like root three. A three is all thats good and right, Why must my… — Ritesh Copy Share Image
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
