Venkatraman Ramakrishnan : (4)

" 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

" Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades. " - 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. " - 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