Richter Scale

Famous quotes containing the words richter and/or scale:

    “Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”
    —Jean Paul Richter (1763–1825)

    “The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance, the man without impediment, who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)