“Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part o...” — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quote

“Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.”

“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.”

“I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.”

“If parents know how many times others are finding lice on their kids' heads, maybe other parents will not hide their own discoveries in shame.”

“One of the fundamental scientific discoveries of the dog-human relationship is that when a dog looks into his master's eyes, you have a release of oxytocin - which is the trust hormone, the love hormone.”

“By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.”