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

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

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

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes

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

Spring makes everything young again except man.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

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

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

This wasn't a strange place

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Discover your strengths and then hone them and be who you are meant to be.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

The United States is in many ways the biggest ghetto in the world.