Frank Press Quotations

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

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.

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

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

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.

Postdocs are needed to build a modern research team; you want to bring in people with different backgrounds and different skills.

The notion of graduate students as colleagues rather than students is a more modern notion, I think - across the country, in many different fields.

It was a marriage of convenience. Everybody recognized it as that, but we didn't think it was an extraordinary thing. The lab was a very nice place.

In many places where you have these kinds of people - very strong, very confident people - the atmosphere is frenetic and tense and unpleasant.

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.