In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
C. V. RAMANI think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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And it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
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I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray.
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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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