Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
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.
