Frank Press Quotes

United States, Geophysicist
December 4, 1924 – January, 29, 2020.

Frank Press is an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981–1993). He is the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

Frank Press
- People
- Question
For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

Frank Press
- Growth

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

Frank Press
- Great
- Men
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.

Frank Press
- Work
- Country
- Travel
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.

Frank Press
- Work
- Different
- Attitude
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

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

Frank Press