Assigned Quote by Charles Francis Richter

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

— Anonymous

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

The scale of light can be described by numbers called the frequency and as the numbers get higher, the light goes from red to…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.

— Merce Cunningham

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

— Isaac Asimov

“[...] most exhibitors try to outdo each other in light output. The lighting designer Dan Heap describes this as a "lux war" ("lux" is…

— Philip Hughes

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Thomas Paine

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

— Lewis Carroll

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein