Author: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

- 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

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

- 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

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

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

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

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 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

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