The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
C. V. RAMANAnd 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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In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.
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It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.
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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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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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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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I 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 is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.
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