Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honor, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

I don't know anything about science.

Science is my passion; politics, my duty.

You never know where a breakthrough might occur, so please pursue various possibilities for potential research.

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it.

Like other government research, big bucks academic research is done to understand the nature and structure of the universe or to understand life, which really means that it is either for blowing up the world or extending life, whichever comes first.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

In holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.

Who does science determines what science gets done.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.