'We all want to be The Dude'
Venki Ramakrishnan on optimism, Jane Austen and why he wants to be Jeff Bridges
Scientists, regardless of how grumpy or down they may feel, are all optimists. If they weren’t, they would have left! In science, most of the time things aren’t working. When it does work, you publish and you move on to the next step that isn’t working. So scientists have to be an optimistic bunch.