Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

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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• I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.

  

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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

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• I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

  

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• 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
  • Work
  • Science
  • Courage