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.
C. V. RAMANThe Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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This was the reason why I decided, as far as possible, not to accept money from the government.
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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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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 have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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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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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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 generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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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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