Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.

People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely in superconductivity and critical phenomena.

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

I only learn from the people I work with.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

Every person I work with, I learn something from.

I learned a lot at Chelsea partly down to the players I played alongside.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to.

I learned so much from the people in Seattle. They taught me everything from community to business relationships.