Science
- Bark scale by Eberhard Zwicker in 1961. It is named after Heinrich Barkhausen.
- Bergius process by Friedrich Bergius in 1913.
- Richter magnitude scale by Beno Gutenberg (together with Charles Francis Richter)
- Fahrenheit, temperature scale by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.”
—Jules Henri Poincare (1854–1912)