Day 221 - 08:11am, 10 August 2019
I had the opportunity to hear Professor Venki Ramakrishnan speak yesterday, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist. I went to it with only a very vague notion of what a ribosome is, and left with a slightly less fuzzy view, other than I now know they are present in every cell and are the ones to build proteins. This, apparently, makes them very important.
Rather than a greater understanding of science, what I took from him, was a greater understanding of humans as scientists, of how they can be noble in collaboration and cut-throat in competition, that scientists make lots of mistakes, even the good ones (and being a Nobel Prize winner doesn't necessarily make you a great scientist or even the best in your field).
His advice was to seek out the very hard problems that you are passionate about finding the answer for and then you go after them, because that is what will keep you motivated during the long and difficult quest to find the answers.
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