It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
C. V. RAMANWe begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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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 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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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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 strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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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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To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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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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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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