My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

- Charles Francis Richter

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

- Charles Francis Richter

Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is prog…

- Charles Francis Richter

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

- Charles Francis Richter

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

- Charles Francis Richter

it is good to have measured myself, to recognize my limitations.

- Charles Francis Richter

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, h…

- Charles Francis Richter

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

- Charles Francis Richter

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

- Charles Francis Richter