#scale

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#change #cherish #cooperation #economic #economic change

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#effective #general #may #parts #regulated

Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost! ↗

— Rachael Ray

#how #i #idea #lost #much

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#human #human beings #large #possible #regarded

What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#appreciated #away #been #blown #blown away

I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#i #now #open-ended #press #referring

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#assigned #avoid #been #categories #could

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

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