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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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
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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
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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. - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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