Top 43 Quotes by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

About Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

These are some quotes by American author Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Scientist, who was born in 1952.

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 am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

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

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

Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

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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