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“Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.”
“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.”
“For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.”
“It's a difficult question of relations between people.”
“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.”