#magnitude

The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#daily #daily lives #difficult #figure #lives

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

— Thomas Paine

#direction #into #magnitude #taken #which

For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#energy #example #for example #infrared #large

I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#because #belief #correct #every #ground

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

— Charles Francis Richter

#astronomy #brightness #brought #interest #magnitude

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.' ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#apparatus #ask #common #frequently #instrument

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#closer #constant #course #earthquakes #emerged

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#beneath #land #magnitude #more #orders

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#estimation #magnitude #measure #method #provided

That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight. ↗

— Lauren Bush

#charge #eight #got #grandfather #job