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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.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Because
Critical
Daily
Daily Basis
Difficult
Feedback
First-Rate
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Go
Need
Place
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I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Brilliant
Express
Factor
Genuine
Grateful
Had
Hard
How
Interest
Key
Many
Me
Often
Potential
Problem
Spot
Students
Thought
Very
Whether
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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.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Amount
Certain
Courage
Decades
Few
Hard
Know
Now
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Problems
Realise
Science
Tackle
Takes
Very
Will
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Years
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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.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Data
Democratic
Democratic Society
Group
Lay
Live
Make
Make Up
Mind
Other
Out
Own
People
Priesthood
Public
Science
Scientists
Should
Small
Small Group
Society
Some
Then
Think
Up
Views
Way
Where
Work
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Born
Come
Facilities
Good
Good Teachers
Makes
Need
Scientist
Teachers
Were
Where
You
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Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Ambitious
Bursting
Faculty
Family
Father
Found
Gone
Lab
Like
Lot
Members
My Own
Own
Prone
Tears
Top
Universities
Who
Women
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Abroad
Adolescence
Being
Both
Character
Childhood
Filled
India
Interesting
International
Life
Many
Me
Particularly
Science
Scientists
Stay
Struck
Us
Visiting
Were
Whom
Would
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Calculations
Certainly
Computing
Earlier
Etc
Exposure
Helped
Like
Me
Physics
Techniques
Use
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Aunts
Cared
Day
Extended
Family
Grandparents
Indian
Mother
Taught
University
Usual
Way
Well
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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.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
About
Did
However
I Can
Immediately
India
Me
Nobody
Offer
Refuse
State
Work
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Ambition
Awards
Curiosity
Go
Human
Out
People
Science
Scientists
Win
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Discoveries
Enterprise
International
Other
Part
Parts
Science
Useful
Where
World
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Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Curiosity
Experimenting
Science
Testing
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Bad
Bad Way
Collaborative
Contest
Convert
Does
Exercise
Highly
Look
Nobel
Science
Today
Way
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Accolades
Feel
Insulted
Interested
Movie
Movie Stars
Not Interested
Politicians
Scientists
Stars
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Above
Anything
Based
Big
Evidence
Impartial
Judge
Like
Make
Perceived
Royal
Society
Stays
Strengths
Sure
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Way
Widely
Will
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The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Culmination
Decades
Determination
Effort
Eventually
Structures
Success
Whole
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There is no magical formula for winning a Nobel Prize.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Formula
Magical
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Winning
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There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Ideologies
Personal
Political
Religious
Room
Science
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Become
Come
Even
Fact
Immigrants
Make
Out
People
Perception
True
Unfriendly
Very
Want
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