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

- Charles Francis Richter

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

- Charles Francis Richter

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

- Charles Francis Richter

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

- Charles Francis Richter

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

- 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

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

- Charles Francis Richter

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

- Charles Francis Richter