The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
C. V. RAMANThe Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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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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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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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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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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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.
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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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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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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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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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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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