I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
C. V. RAMANIs 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?
More C. V. Raman Quotes
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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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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Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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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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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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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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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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