Quotes from Frank Press

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.