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Checkout quotes by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan on Work

• ‟ It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

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• ‟ I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.

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• ‟ It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

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• ‟ Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.

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• ‟ I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

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• ‟ If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

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