It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
C. V. RAMANWe must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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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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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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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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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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It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the 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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We 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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I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial, governmental or military pressures.
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I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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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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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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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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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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