Complaints Quote by Charles Francis Richter

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

“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

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

— Ann Voskamp

It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

— Lakshmi Mittal

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather…

— John Banham

The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.

— Sandra E. Peterson

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

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

— Marvin Minsky

I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings…

— Antony Gormley

For me, the only thing that makes one scale different from another is not the starting note; it's the separation of the intervals.

— Allan Holdsworth

Secondly, figures, the symbols of numerical magnitude, are frequently also the symbols of operations, as when they are the indices of powers. Wherever terms…

— Ada Lovelace

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

— Ellsworth Kelly