Another Quote by Charles Francis Richter

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

The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis.…

— 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

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending…

— Charles Francis Richter

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.

— Anonymous

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in…

— Charles Francis Richter

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

— Massimo Vignelli

Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale, or a…

— Massimo Vignelli

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

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

— Ellsworth Kelly

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

— Thomas Paine

Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental.

— Massimo Vignelli