Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Press

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Frank Press.

Last updated on April 19, 2025.

Frank Press was 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 was the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth.

American - Scientist | Born: December 4, 1924

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

Frank Press

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

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

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

Frank Press

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

Frank Press

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

Frank Press

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

Frank Press

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.

Frank Press

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Press

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