Author: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Quotes

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.

I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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