American - Scientist | 1952 -
Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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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.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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