Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

The publicity of the Nobel Prize has made clear that the research work connected with the Quantum Hall Effect was so successful because a tremendous large number of institutions and individuals supported this activity.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

This is a team sport.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

In science your competitors are your colleagues.

Science is a we, not an I. We are so used to star athletes, star entertainers, star politicians, but that is not science.

Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.

We work as a team, and that is a huge part of why we have been successful; we run fast as a team.

If you win as a unit, everybody gets credit for it.

Individual quality doesn't decide games for us but the whole team.

Team sports is the best for bonding. These sports lessons are also true for startups. You want to be at the top of every endeavour, but you win some and you lose some. As a team, however, you always pump each other up and move forward.

I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.

Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.

I'm happy with my own performance, but I can only be good if the team are good.

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.

My mentality is I have to be better for my teammates.

You will not get anywhere if you are not a great team. It's simple.

The team goals are always more important than individual goals. The ultimate goal is to win the Super Bowl and to do something special. The other little goals that you guys write up, those things take care of itself in the midst of playing football.

I don't think one player can ever win a World Cup.

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

I'm just concerned with winning, not individual accolades.

Coming from a football background, when everybody is doing their job and operating on such a high level, it only motivates you to do the same.