Since my first attachment to seismology, I have had the horror of [earthquake] predictions and of predictors. Journalists and the general public rush to any suggestion of earthquake prediction like hogs toward a full trough.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Ethical and Scientific, Issues Posed by Human Uses of Molecular Genetics, Announcements, Bulletin American Seismological Society, Volume 67, Number 4, August, 1977 (p. 1246)