Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

I'm very interested in science.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

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

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

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

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.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.