Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

Science is always inquiring.

Science is about questioning things.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is facts.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Science is about filling in the details.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

You can theorize as much as you want about what you think you're seeing, but until you get out there and dig, you can't tell exactly what it is.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Science is a quest for understanding.

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.