Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.

The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.

American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not very important, the ones that count are the scientific and literary prizes

Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that.

If we could produce one or two more Madame Curies, that would accomplish far more for the advancement of women than any amount of agitation, argument and legislation.

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.

My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour conferred on us.

People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the one out of a million scientists, but there were 999,999 other scientists who were not as brilliant but who just do great science, as well.

We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.

I know that I derive the same kind of spiritual fulfillment from what I do, being a planetary scientist, seeing our exploration of the solar system come to fruition. I get such a spiritual high from it that I don't even see the need for religion.

I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.

Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.